Backing up my computer using too much space


  1. trevolution11
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    Backing up my computer using too much space


    I got an external drive, a 750 GB drive. The actual capacity of the drive is 698 GB. I have 678 Free. I only have one internal hard drive, with an actual capacity of 687 GB, and I have used 178 GB of my C drive. I have a 12 GB or so Recovery partition. Anyway, When I use widows backup to backup my computer, the backup size is 283.5 GB, which about 100 more GB than is taken on my drive? Why is this?

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  3. Jonathan_King
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    Are you creating a Full System Image in the backup?
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  4. trevolution11
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    Yes I am
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  6. Jonathan_King
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    Try using Wirdirstat to see where the space is going.
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