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Thread ID: 76902	2007-02-20 02:52:00	C drive size discrepancy	Strommer (42)	Press F1

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526059	2007-02-20 02:52:00	Opening C drive from My Computer, it shows about 4 Gb, but if I right click on C Drive > Properties, it shows about 11 Gb. Checking the size of each main folders in C Drive adds up to 4 Gb. Ace Utilities disk analysis also shows 4 Gb. But when I make a drive image using Acronis, the total size of C drive is 11 Gb (before compression to the drive image). Whats going on here? The pagefile is around 800 Mb. It would be nice to delete or reduce this prior to making a drive image. I have googled "delete pagefile" and read several tech explanations but could not make sense of it although I understand that the pagefile should be around 1.5x the total RAM. In any case, 800 Mb of pagefile does not explain the difference between 4 and 11 Gb for the size of C drive. Info: WinXP Home, 512 RAM. If 4 Gb for C drive seems small to you it is because most data has been transferred to another partition on the hd.	Strommer (42)
526060	2007-02-20 03:23:00	Is this the hdd u just put in the other day? Check and see if hibernation is off and system restore. Both take a chuck of space. And use ccleaner or something to get rid of the temp files etc. That may take it down a bit. I think once XP is installed, it takes a few mb for something. So u wont actually get all of the hdd anyway.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
526061	2007-02-20 03:29:00	Yep, its the Maxtor in the upgraded pc. Have done a clean up of temp files, etc. System Restore in on, not sure about hibernation - do I check in the BIOS or somewhere else?	Strommer (42)
526062	2007-02-20 03:40:00	Hibernation is in control panel / power options / hibernate tab.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
526063	2007-02-20 06:54:00	What does fdisk report or the partition program under computer management	mikebartnz (21)
526064	2007-02-20 07:29:00	The pagefile is around 800 Mb. It would be nice to delete or reduce this prior to making a drive image. What version of Acronis do you have? It may be excluding the page and hibernate files from the image already.	PaulD (232)
526065	2007-02-20 09:45:00	What does fdisk report or the partition program under computer management Hello Mike. The partition program under computer management shows the same as under My Computer > right click (to get a pie graph). C drive = 11 Gb. But when I click on C drive to see the contents then Select All > Properties, it is only 3 Gb. Cannot remember how to access fdisk report.	Strommer (42)
526066	2007-02-20 09:48:00	What version of Acronis do you have? It may be excluding the page and hibernate files from the image already. The latest: version 10 (Vista ready). Speedy I have checked and hibernate is not ticked (under power options). I have done yet another Disk Cleanup but nothing substantial found there. Norton's System Works cleanup also used. ?? :confused: ??	Strommer (42)
526067	2007-02-20 18:16:00	When you read the manual this is in 3.1 "Acronis True Image Home stores only those hard disk parts that contain data (for supported file systems). Further, it does not back up swap file information (pagefile.sys under Windows NT/2000/XP) and Hiberfil.sys (a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into hibernation). This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and restoration."	PaulD (232)
526068	2007-02-20 19:34:00	When you read the manual this is in 3.1 "Acronis True Image Home stores only those hard disk parts that contain data (for supported file systems). Further, it does not back up swap file information (pagefile.sys under Windows NT/2000/XP) and Hiberfil.sys (a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into hibernation). This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and restoration." OK then, this confirms that Acronis should not be at fault. However, the Acronis drive image of C drive is not kept there - I have put it on another partition.	Strommer (42)
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