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True Image 2012 Runs out of disk space

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I am attempting to back up a 300 gig Windows NTFS partition to a disk with 460 gigs of free space. I am using a CD created with Acronis TI Home 2012. I select the partition, but NOT the sector-by-sector backup. It estimates a backup size of 190 gig. However, it fails to create the partition - running out of disk space. This worked with 2011. I have attached the log.

What must I do differently?

Thanks,

Tim

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Run chkdsk X: /R on each partition that you are backing up.
To minimize the space on the original disk, empty your TEMP folders, IE/Firefox caches, disable system protection on the original disk and on the backup disk, empty the trash.

chkdsk finds nothing. I am not trying squeeze this into a mere 460 gig. It makes no sense that the newer version cannot save 300 gigabytes in a 460 gig spot. I sent the log - which is pretty limited. Is there something there that indicates why the backup fails to do this?

chkdsk finds nothing. I am not trying squeeze this into a mere 460 gig. It makes no sense that the newer version cannot save 300 gigabytes in a 460 gig spot. I sent the log - which is pretty limited. Is there something there that indicates why the backup fails to do this?

Did you disable the system protection of the disk? I would like to make sure your disk is not full of shadow copies...

Is this a backup task that includes consolidation option, such that it is to create new backup and then delete the old ones once there is no more space?

I appreciate your help and I apologize for my tone. I find the Acronis system woefully devoid of critical information about what it is doing. Sometimes the frustration boils over. Your original advice was sound. I had read about chkdsk in other posts. They seemed to suggest I would find problems with individual sectors on the disk. What, in fact, it discovered were three index errors and some free space listed as allocated in the MFT. Apparently this was enough to trip the system and shift it into a different mode. When I attempted the backup again last night, it succeeded.

Thanks again for your quick reponses.

ATI creates images by imaging disk sectors. It is sensitive to any errors on the disk. That's why we recommend chkdsk when we suspect that there may be disk errors.

Thanks for letting us know.

It would useful to actually inform the user of what it happening. Perhaps an override of user preferences should be noted, including the reason the preference has been modified. I see this particular problem is hardly unique to me. Acronis should improve their logging. How hard can it be to tell us there is a MFT error?