User guide

The storage capacity of the master (or the medium from which the image was made) must
normally be identical to the storage capacity of the destination media (the media onto which you
want to copy). The PowerSoftware will cancel the copy operation and output an error message if
the destination medium is larger or smaller. Check the check box “Allow image file smaller than
medium” if you want to ignore the size mismatch.
Attention:With this option enabled, if the physical storage capacity of the destination medium is
larger than necessary, the available storage capacity will be reduced after copying since the
partition data and file system was created for the smaller source medium.
This option is useful to avoid copying problems due to small storage capacity fluctuations between
media of different manufacturers or different production batches. You must also check this
checkbox if you are copying from a short image file and you have not saved an image information
(*.ii) file.
The options in the File System tab require a Windows-compatible file system on the media
(currently NTFS or FAT).
The available options are File copy, File Copy Verify, Serialization and FAT checks & optimization.
The operations are always carried out after writing or verifying the image file and are carried out
sequentially. The first three options require you to select the corresponding base directory or
serialization program.
In addition, if you are copying from a short image file and copy data to media with a smaller
storage capacity than the original medium, FAT optimization automatically reduces the resulting file
system size to the size of the destination media. This only adapts the file system – the storage
capacity of the destination media must be larger than the short image file and large enough for all
of the data.
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