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Bootable USB with tibx file

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Hi there,

I'm using Acronis True Image 2021.

My goal: I would like to create a bootable USB pendrive and to copy the tibx file (that contains my Windows 10 C: partition). So in case the PC fails to boot/read from the internal HDD, I could boot from the external USB pendrive and recover the whole system from the tibx file that is on the same pendrive. This would be my preferred method, so I could travel with a single USB dongle that fits in any pocket, instead of carrying an external HDD drive.

My problem: the USB pendrive needs to be formatted in FAT32. The tibx file can't be stored there as its size exceeds the 4GB limit.

My questions:

a) I could backup my C: system directly on the USB pendrive. But in that case, Acronis would split up the file into 4GB-files, correct?

b) Is there any other solution to backup/copy the tibx file to the pendrive without splitting it? Like, for example, creating 2 partitions of the USB pendrive: using one partition as boot drive (FAT32) and the second partition to copy the tibx file (NTFS)?

Thanks for any hint.

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Joon, welcome to these public User Forums.

In principle you could have a small 2GB FAT32 partition on your USB pendrive and have the remainder of the drive space formatted as NTFS to allow for larger file sizes.  I have done this previously with a 128GB USB pendrive but the FAT32 partition normally needs to remain hidden without an assigned drive letter for this to work and be accessible within Windows.

Disk 3 above shows the 128GB USB pendrive. 

Note: the 2GB boot / rescue media partition was created by ATI as a Survival Kit drive when making a new Disk backup to the thumb drive.  (Disk 2 is an external pocket sized 2TB HDD drive using a 2.5" laptop drive which is my main backup / recovery drive - the 32GB FAT32 partition includes the Windows 10 install media as well as options to boot from several versions of ATI etc).