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UEFI back-up with many back-up files

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I prefer the simplicity of using the boot software for full back-ups and restores and created a USB flash drive for booting TI 2016 after installing the latest version on an updated to date Win 10 Pro 64 bit computer with legacy boot which I'm guessing includes MBR. The boot drive works fine. Using that boot drive, on a few different computers, all with legacy boot MBR, I always obtain a single back-up file which is independent of both the OS, 64 bit Win 7 or 64 bit Win 10, and the number of partitions on a single drive, 1-3. See capture 1. But when I backed up my daughter in law’s 6 month old Lenovo laptop, Win 10 home with a UEFI boot system (see capture 2 of disk management for her laptop single HDD) onto an external USB spinning HDD, I obtained many files. See capture 3. During the back-up selection process, everything seemed fine with the back-up software, and I selected Disk 1 as a back-up option, which included all of the partitions being checked. So why didn’t I get a single back-up image? And is there I way I can do a back-up of the entire drive and obtain a single back-up file like in capture 1? I have absolutely no experience with UEFI boot systems and do not have the laptop with me.

And maybe I just figured it out. I think the external HDD that stored the back-up files was formatted with FAT32, which I believe has a file size limit of around 4GB max. Is that the problem? If yes, I can just reformat the external HDD with NTFS or EXFAT.

Thanks.

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Jacob, the reason for the multiple 4GB backup files is simply that the backup drive is formatted as FAT32 which imposed this maximum file size limitation.  If you reformat that backup drive to NTFS then you will get back to creating one single large file instead.