As an old time user of Ghost, I'd have to ask, why set the 'chunks' to such a small value?  I see no purpose or advantage to doing that.
If you were going to store those 'chunks' on DVD's, for instance, the default size of 2 gig would be just fine, as two 'chunks' would then fit on a singel DVD.
The larger the 'chunks' are and the fewer there are, the less chance of errors.

I have no clue why your second drive is formatted as NTFS......if somehow you formatted it in Windows, that's what it would be by default.
To get it formatted in FAT-32, you'd have to do that from a DOS boot disk with the Format program on it.

Now, to get it back to FAT-32, you have to either reformat it in DOS or use the "Convert" option in 'Partition Magic 8".
I've done that a few times, but you first need to run Chkdsk /r to make certain that there are NO errors on the HD, or PM8's Convert function will fail and you could be stuck with a NON-Readable HD.

Since Ghost can and does see a NTFS drive with NO problems, the format of the drive that holds the Ghost Backup Image Files is unimportant.
I prefer FAT-32 for ease of access, even from a DOS boot disk.

I don't see where 'serial number' comes into the game at all. ???

If you've backed up an NTFS C: drive and you're going to restore the image to a new drive, there is NO need to format the drive.  That Image should be a "Disk to Image" backup and NOT a "Partition to Image" backup.

All this has been written up extensively in this very forum.
Read!  Read!  Read!

Cheers Mate!
Shadow 

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it looks like a clone rather than a disk to image
if you see what i mean if the partition was Fat 32 then an image file gets
written to it.and it is not going to change the format.
I am not a ghost expert so I leave you to shadows .
and the other experts.
Ben