Amount of HDD used Increases by about 60GB after Cloning
Hi all
After cloning about 60GB of data from one 500GB HDD (Seagate) to another 500GB HDD (Samsung) I find that the amount of data in the first drive has increased to about 120GB. What has caused this and how can I recover this 60GB of disk space? I fear that the next time I do a cloning the 120GB of data will become 180GB or maybe 240Gb (depending on whether about 60Gb of extra data is added or the amount of data doubles on each cloning). I fear that after 2 or 3 clonings the disk will be full! Have I got some settings wrong so it is cloning to the orginal disk as well as the 2nd one? i cannot find any extra files using Windows Explorer.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Jim

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Hi DwnNDrty
I am using clone (I want the 2nd drive to be an exact copy of the first so if anything happens to the first I can simply replace it.) What I cannot understand is why the drive I am cloning decreases in the amount of available space.
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This is a strange one. I'd run chkdsk /f on the disk and see if that fixes it (/r is usually preferred but will take a long time and isn't likely to uncover anything). Sounds more like a reporting error but I don't know why anything should get changed on the source drive when cloning but who knows. Anyway, it's something to try and will give confidence the file structure is OK.
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Hi Seekforever
I have tried running chkdsk and got about 1GB back. I then ran ccleaner and got back about another 5GB but large amounts of disk space still seem to be missing. When I compare the original disk with the cloned disk I cannot see any extra files. Is there anyway Acronis puts something on a disk which windows only knows is using disk space but cannot detect it? "My computer" shows 324 free of 450 GB on drive c (the original) and 389 GB free on drive G ( the clone). I have not put about 65 GB of files on the disk since the cloning so what is fillling it up?
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Check in Disk Management and see if there are any hidden and unmarked partitions.
You haven't mentioned what version of TI you are using.
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I wonder if Windows System Restore is doing something?
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Hi Bodgy
I'm using ATI Home 2009 and Vista SP2. I've looked in Disk Management and there does not seem to be any hidden and unmarked partitions, but the main partition includes something called "crash dump". Could this be what is taking up the missing disk space?
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It could be, crash dumps range from 100's MB to a few GB's insize.
You can safely delete it and see what happens.
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Hi Seekforever
I've looked at Windows System Restore and reset it to 2GB and got back most of my missing 60GB! Many thanks for your help. Reducing it to 2Gb shouldn't affect the security or efficiency of my system should it? Strange how it seemed to appear (or I first noticed it) after cloning the disk. Anyway thanks again for providing the solution to my missing 60 GB.
Jim
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