Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows - User Guide - Manual (Page 52)

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Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your
server from booting.
6.3.7 Changing the restored partition file system
You can change the partition file system during its restoration, although it is seldom
required. Acronis True Image Echo Server can make the following file system conversions:
FAT 16 -> FAT 32 and Ext2 -> Ext3. For partitions with other native file systems, this
option is not available.
Let us 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 partitions up to 4GB, so you will
not be able to restore a 4GB FAT16 partition to a partition that exceeds that limit without
changing the file system. It would make sense here to change the file system from FAT16
to FAT32.
However, 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 operable after you
restore a partition and change its file system. These can be normally restored on a FAT16
partition only.
6.3.8 Changing the restored partition size and location
You can resize and relocate a partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse or by
entering corresponding values in the appropriate fields.
Using this feature, you can redistribute the disk space between partitions being restored.
In this case, you will have to restore the partition to be reduced first.
These changes might be useful if you are to copy your hard disk to a new, high-capacity
one by creating its image and restoring it to a new disk with larger partitions.