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New HDD partitioned during ATI backup

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Hello, I purchased a new Seagate 6TB external HDD specifically for my ATI 2020 .tibx backup files.

After the backup was successfully completed, I  find that a new partition "HM" was formed, 2GB FAT32 format, in addition to the main nominal 6TB partition. This new partition has 1.35GB free

Can anyone please advise the reason for this new partition, and if I  should merge with the the other larger partition

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Somewhere in the process of defining the backup parameters you accidentally clicked on option to include the Acronis recovery media. This allows you to boot the USB drive to do recovery. Cannot remember what it is called - another senior's moment.

Ian

The option to create a Survival Kit is only offered when you are creating a new Disks & Partitions (or Entire PC) type backup task and are setting the Destination for the task to a suitable external USB drive that can be used for this purpose.
See KB 61639: Acronis True Image: how to create Acronis Survival Kit - for more information on the process.
Also KB 61738: Acronis True Image: Survival Kit disk partition for backups is limited to 2TB on BIOS-booted systems
And Acronis Article:  The Acronis Survival Kit

Thanks Steve.S and IanL-S  . Yes, I  do recall the option  "include the Acronis recovery media. " and I did select that, because I  thought it meant that it would allow me to burn a DVD for recovery :)

I  will just leave it as is  for the time being, might come in useful some day