Copying an image onto a FAT32 partition

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Hi all, I did a backup with Acronis Trueimage onto an external (NTFS)
USB hard disk. I need to install Linux on another partition of this
same disk, and before I'd like to copy the image somewhere for
safety.

Is it safe to copy it to a FAT32 partition of another USB hard disk,
or should I reformat the FAT32 partition to NTFS first?

Thanks.
 
Eric said:
I did a backup with Acronis Trueimage onto an external (NTFS)
USB hard disk. I need to install Linux on another partition of this same
disk, and before I'd like to copy the image somewhere for safety.
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Is it safe to copy it to a FAT32 partition of another USB hard disk,
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It may not actually be possible, FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB.
or should I reformat the FAT32 partition to NTFS first?
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Yes, if the file is bigger than that.
 
It may not actually be possible, FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB.


Yes, if the file is bigger than that.
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The image produced by Trueimage on the NTFS partition consists in 6
files of 4,194,304 bytes each, plus a smaller file. I don't know if
this is normal or it is normal just one a file.

I copied one of the 4.1 Gb files without problems. I take it from your
answer that everything is fine then? Is this just as good an image as
the one on NTFS?
 
The image produced by Trueimage on the NTFS partition
consists in 6 files of 4,194,304 bytes each, plus a smaller
file. I don't know if this is normal or it is normal just one a file.
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Then you can certainly copy those to a FAT32 formatted drive fine.
I copied one of the 4.1 Gb files without problems.
I take it from your answer that everything is fine then?
Yes.

Is this just as good an image as the one on NTFS?
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Yes.
 
Thanks. I just realized that in reality the original disk is a FAT32
too, that's why the image is split, I guess.

I used a somewhat old version of Partition Magic Pro to create it
(7.0), and I'm
pretty sure I selected NTFS, but it went ahead and created a FAT32,
which I hadn't noticed until now.
 
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