User Guide

Restoring a disk (partition) from an image
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If you need only the data, you do not have to create another primary partition. In
this case, you can restore the partition as a logical partition to access the data only.
But if you are to restore a system partition, you should select the Primary type for
it. Finally, if you want to load an operating system from it, select Active as well.
Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your PC
from booting.
5.6 Selecting a file system
Though it is seldom required to change a partition file system, you can change it
during its restoration.
Select a file system
Let’s imagine you are to restore a partition from an old, low-capacity FAT16 disk to
a newer disk. FAT16 would not be effective and might even be impossible to set on
the high-capacity hard disk. That's because FAT16 supports files up to 4 GB, so you
won’t be able to restore a 4 GB FAT16 partition to a disk that exceeds that threshold
without changing the file system.
It would make sense here to change the file system from FAT16 to FAT32 by setting
the appropriate software switch.