User Guide

Creating a partition (disk) image
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Image file size selection
If You work with removable media, the size of a file of an image is set automatically only.
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
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hard drives have
capacities of 160GB and lar
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er! Therefore, an ima
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e file mi
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ht easily exceed this limit. In
that case, Apricorn EZ Gig II will automatically split the image into several files.
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.
4.4 Selecting data compression level
Now you must select the data compression level for the image to be created.
If you select None, all data will be transferred into an image file as they are,
increasing the image size. Maximum compression might reduce the program
performance and prolong image creation.