Selecting A File System - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 8.0 User Manual

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.
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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.
But you must also keep in mind that not all operating systems support FAT32. MS-
DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.x, 4.x do not support FAT32 and will not be
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