Ghosting laptop HDD 1

[jpmcbride]

I’m trying to image a EVO610C laptop with a 40gb hard drive. I’m only using 2.6gb of space but the image is 20gb. Any ideas?

 

[micker377]

An image will copy the whole partition to catch any hidden or non-movable files. What are you trying to write the image to?

 

[jpmcbride]

writing an image to a network hdd

 

[jimp56]

did you choose to ghost a partition or the full hd? and if ghost encounters bad sectors it performs a sector-by-sector copy which essentially creates an image file the same size as total capacity of the hd, but it usually warns you first unless you set it to force clone despite errors...

when you say only 2.6gb being used, where did you get that total from? by drive properties within windows?

 

[jpmcbride]

drive properties within windows

 

[jimp56]

well then it doesnt make much sense as to why the image file is so much bigger, unless it encountered bad sectors, but that would indicate a 40gb image file as opposed to 20gb, unless the drive is partitioned as 20/20. strange.