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Creating a partition (disk) image

If there is not enough space, Acronis True Image will warn you and wait for your

decision. You can try to free some additional space and continue or stop Acronis

True Image, free some space and re-execute the procedure.

Image file size selection

FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have a 4 GB limit for maximum file sizes. FAT32 is currently the

most popular end user file system. At the same time, existin

hard drives have capacities of

160GB and larger! Therefore, an image file might easily exceed this limit. In that case, Acronis

True Image will automatically split the image into several files.

If you need to create an image automatically on CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW

media, Acronis True Image will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one

is full.

You can also fix image file size by selecting Fixed size and entering the desired

size or selecting it from the drop-down list. By default, the value is in bytes, but you

can also use kilobytes and megabytes.

You can also split the ima

e file into several volumes when storin

it on a hard drive. Later

you'll be able to easily transfer these files onto CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW disks.

Creating images directly on CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW mi

ht take considerably

longer time then it would on a hard disk.

4.5 Selecting data compression level

Now you must select the data compression level for the image to be created.