{"id":219,"date":"2004-10-27T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/explanation-of-partition-and-file-menu-options-in-image-for-dos\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T23:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:09:42","slug":"explanation-of-partition-and-file-menu-options-in-image-for-dos","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/explanation-of-partition-and-file-menu-options-in-image-for-dos\/","title":{"rendered":"Explanation of &#8220;Partition&#8221; and &#8220;File&#8221; Menu Options in Image for DOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<strong>Please note: <\/strong>This article applies to version 1 product(s) only.<\/p><p>When creating an image with Image for DOS, you have the option to save the image file(s) to either a &quot;File&quot; or a &quot;Partition&quot; destination.&nbsp; This article explains what each of these options means.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>File:<\/strong>&nbsp; This option causes&nbsp;the operating system to be used to access the image file(s).&nbsp; Using this option lets you access the target medium by drive letter, and also access network drives.&nbsp; However, this option cannot be used if the target medium uses a file system which is not supported by the environment Image for DOS is running in.&nbsp; This means that the File option generally cannot be used when saving images to NTFS partitions.&nbsp; The File option&nbsp;does not provide support for the &quot;BIOS HD (direct)&quot; menu option, or the IFD=ATA environment variable option, if either are used.&nbsp; (Those options will, however, still be in effect for the I\/O taking place on the partition being imaged or restored.)<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Partition:<\/strong>&nbsp; This option bypasses the operating system when it creates the image file(s).&nbsp; Using this option lets you access the target medium directly, and save images to file systems not supported by the environment Image for DOS is running in.&nbsp; The Partition option is generally required when saving images to NTFS partitions.&nbsp; The Partition option&nbsp;also provides support for the &quot;BIOS HD (direct)&quot; menu option, and the IFD=ATA environment variable option, if used.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note: This article applies to version 1 product(s) only.When creating an image with Image for DOS, you have the option to save the image file(s) to either a &quot;File&quot; or a &quot;Partition&quot; destination.&nbsp; This article explains what each of these options means. File:&nbsp; This option causes&nbsp;the operating system to be used to access the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1818],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2118],"class_list":["post-219","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-ifd-ifl-ifw-version-1-archive","lsvr_kba_tag-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/219\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}