FAT32

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fat 32

Acronis Nonstop Backup: Storage File System Must Be NTFS

FAT32 does not support "sparse" attribute, which is necessary for Acronis Nonstop Backup

Acronis True Image Home 2011: Target Partition File System Is Not Supported by Nonstop Backup

Select a simple NTFS partition as a destination.

Acronis Disk Director 11 Home: "Failed to mount the file system" Shows in Logs after Merging Partitions from Acronis Bootable Media

This is a false message that can be safely ignored

Acronis Disk Director 11: Converting File System

The following conversion operations are supported:

  • FAT16 to FAT32 and back
  • ext2 to ext3 and back

Solution

  1. Start Acronis Disk Director 11 and select the partition, the file system of which you would like to convert:

  2. Click Convert:

Acronis True Image splits backup archives to 4 GB volumes when backing up to FAT32 drives

This is a limitation of the FAT32 file system