New
#1
Image file 3X larger than used space. Used Macrium Reflect free ver.
After talking to some 'friends' about which to use, I chose macrium to help me backup windows 7. For the compression and I heard it's able to backup even if windows is totally screwed up.
So I want EXACTLY what's on my drive and it came out weird.
The system reserve is 100 MB, I've used 35MB.
The actual drive has 99GB used and is a total of 465 free (Solid State Drive Samsung Evo)
And I got a 314 GB image file (thankfully I used my pretty empty external drive, thought it would've been smaller and was close to thinking a 150 GB drive would be more than sufficient space...)
So when I mount it in macrium, I'm getting 25MB used out of the 100MB reserve for system. And the other one I'm getting around 89 GB out of the total 465.
So the numbers are different as well.....
My procedure:
Clicked on the C drive which has system reserve and all my programs. Clicked on IMAGE THIS DISK.
Chose destination which is my F external drive.
In the next one "EDIT PLAN FOR BACKUP" I didn't add anything because I just wanted a one time thing and I unchecked everything, including the retention rules
The compression is on medium recommended.
Am I missing something? It's suppose to be at LEAST same size if not smaller :/