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Drive imaged twice = two much different size images

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True Image Home 2009
WinXP

Does anyone have any ideas what is going on here?

My C Drive has 16.1 gb used space and 88.8 gb free space.

I made an image on to a second internal hard drive in the computer and got one .tib file 12.9 gb in size. Created 11:03 am. This was validated during creation

I made a second image- same image type- on a removable USB hard drive and got four .tib files size 4.2 gb, 4.2 gb, 4.2 gb and 0.3 gb. Total 12.6 gb. Not validated. These were created between 1:25 and 1:40 pm.

My E Drive has 5.4 gb used and 73.6 free space.

On the second internal hard drive the validated .tib file is 4.1 gb. Created 11:15 am.

On the removable USB drive I got five .tib files 4.2 gb, 4.2gb, 4.2gb, 4.2gb and 0.2 gb. Total 16.8 gb. Not validated. These were created between 1:43 and 2:02 pm.

All the above is from Windows Explorer.

True Image restore manager sees CDrive4.tib and EDrive5.tib on the USB hard drive.
True Image restore manager sees CDrive.tib and EDrive.tib on the second internal hard drive.

I appreciate any ideas. I hope this isn't too much information but its what I have.
Richard

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Richard:

Your external USB hard disk must be formatted as FAT32 - many external disks are shipped pre-formatted from the factory this way. FAT32 has a 4 GB file size limitation. Knowing this, TI splits the backup into as many 4 GB pieces as are required.

Your internal disk is formatted as NTFS, which does not have this limitation. If you want to have single backup files on the external disk then you should format it as NTFS.

Mark you are correct. Many older computers have a NTFS format. If you are backing up from one disk to another, they should have the same format. This is sometimes noted when you install a new hard disk, say a Serial drive in your (older) IDE drive computer. Windows gives you an opportunity to specify the formatting in advance. Also, you need all the most recent Windows Service Packs. If you don't have them, you may find errors and split-ups in your backup. In some cases, it may not back up completely at all, causing you to think that the program you purchased for backups is faulty, when it is not. Mike