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Many True Image 9.0 backup files

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I tried backing up a 160gb hard drive to a 2T drive. When it was finished the 2T hard drive contained 40 backup files, each 4,194,304 KB in size, starting with file #1 thru #40. I used the default settings. I would like to know why I got so many backup files. I was doing a full backup.
I've done backups before and got one backup file.

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Ronald:

Probably because the 2 TB drive was formatted as FAT32, which has a 4 GB maximum file size limit. TI recognized this and split the backup into 4 GB pieces.

If you have files larger than 4 GB that you'd like to store on the large disk you'll need to reformat it as NTFS.

Sounds like that is the situation. I will see how my drive is formatted and go from there.
Thanks

Ronald:

One more thing you should check - your file set was 40 files of 4 GB each = 160 GB. Your disk size was also 160 GB, so something else is wrong. A backup image file set should be smaller than the occupied space on the disk and yours is the same size as the disk.

Two things can cause this:
1. You selected "sector-by-sector" mode when backing up. This mode copies every sector on the disk, both used and unused sectors, to the backup file set. The normal backup mode is what you would normally want to use. It does not copy unused sectors to the backup and the result is a smaller image file.
2. You have bad sectors or file system errors on the disk that you backed up from. When there are errors, TI switches to the sector-by-sector mode. If this is the case then you should run a disk check to fix the errors. Either run chkdsk from a command prompt or schedule a disk check from Windows Explorer by right-clicking on each drive and choosing Properties > Tools > Error checking > Check now