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P19
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file system compatibility

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I have a machine with a UEFI partitioning scheme and NTFS file system, on which a version of Windows is installed. Using IFL, I want to back it up to a USB stick with a fat32 file system. Afterwards, I will move the backup onto a larger device with NTFS. Will this procedure work without losing any information due to file systems or other factor? Thanks.
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Re: file system compatibility

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NTFS and FAT32 are supported so you're good.


"P19" wrote in message news:10666@public.image...

I have a machine with a UEFI partitioning scheme and NTFS file system, on
which a version of Windows is installed. Using IFL, I want to back it up to
a USB stick with a fat32 file system. Afterwards, I will move the backup
onto a larger device with NTFS. Will this procedure work without losing any
information due to file systems or other factor? Thanks.

P19
Posts: 68
Joined: Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:38 pm

Re: file system compatibility

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Thanks for information. I did learn that it was necessary to keep the backup files to no larger than 4 GB because the FAT32 is thus limited.
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Re: file system compatibility

Post by TeraByte Support »

and for everyone, limiting to 2G is actually faster because it seems windows
slows way down on files larger than 2G on FAT32.


"P19" wrote in message news:10676@public.image...

Thanks for information. I did learn that it was necessary to keep the backup
files to no larger than 4 GB because the FAT32 is thus limited.

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