Image size question

[waltzzz]

I am trying the trial for the first time. Paragon Disk Backup. It told me that the by worked be 78 GB. Now when I see it on my backup drive it is slightly bigger than the original drive.

I'd like to understand this or know if there is some problem or error I have made.

[xellos]

Hello,

The compression level could have a big impact to the resulting backup size.

It depends additionally on the file type which are stored in this backup. If you create a backup of a partition which contains mainly files, the max compression level won't help you here because files are already highly compressed itself.

Could you explain what kind of backup you created? (e.g. system or data partition to an external drive, compression level, ...)

regards,
xellos

[waltzzz]

Hi xellos,

Thanks for your reply. I must have been tired when I wrote my question!

The disk size is 150 gig. Used on that drive is 73 gig. The Backup file is 149 Gig. That is what puzzles me.

Further to your questions I did the default settings for a backup.

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I have another problem. Trying to use Disk Explorer to see if I could answer your questions it simply crashes the program each time.

Is that a know fault? Is there a fix? It has done it out of the box, I have never been able to use Disk explorer.

Toshiba M200 - Windows Tablet PC - XP

Walter

[ams]

Looks like you did backup with settings 1:1 to create an exact image of partition. Sure it will produce 150Gb file of 150Gb partition. Check in program settings if this feature enabled and change the compression level to best. As for crashing Volume Explorer, I think your HDD refuses in access for this utility.

[waltzzz]

Thanks for your help. Ok I will have another go with other settings. Pity as I want to keep the copy of that early installation, but it will hog too much space.

[waltzzz]

I have just tried again. The default settings tell me the archive will be 83 gig, and that is what it told me last time. Archive presumably means the backup file. Just to check that I clicked on Archive tab - and that too crashed the software.

Maybe this just is not the right software for this machine?

[ams]

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