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INTERNAL DISK CONTAINING TRUE IMAGE, GROWS UP BY ITSELF

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Dear Sirs,

Some weeks ago, I called a technician to remove the dust from my Desktop PC. Afterwards, I told him to insert a brand new hard drive and make a true image of my disk C:, in order to boot my PC from this brand new drive.

The technician, after making the cleaning operation, inserted the brand new disk, but when I told him to make a True Image of C, he showed a negative attitude for using Acronis True Image, because the Acronis product, sometimes, fails, and the official service does not use this product.

I started the process alone and he moved his chair backwards. He wanted to leave. The True Image(Automatic Mode) was unsuccessful.

The technician left and I tried a second time to make a True Image of my disk C, choosing "Sector by sector" mode. The True Image was successful.

Three weeks have elapsed from this operation, and I have noticed that the size of the occupied part of the disk, having the True Image has gradually increased by five gigabytes, at the time of writing this.

Any idea about why does this happen?

Shall I try to boot from this disk?

The original C is in his place and bears the logo of Windows 10 Pro and I boot from the same drive as before.

 

Thank you very much

John Kanellopoulos

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John Kanellopoulos wrote:

Three weeks have elapsed from this operation, and I have noticed that the size of the occupied part of the disk, having the True Image has gradually increased by five gigabytes, at the time of writing this.  Any idea about why does this happen?  
Shall I try to boot from this disk?  
The original C is in his place and bears the logo of Windows 10 Pro and I boot from the same drive as before.

John, If I understand your post correctly, you have created a copy of your Windows 10 boot drive on a new hard disk drive and have been using this new disk drive with Windows 10, booting from it etc. for three weeks.

When you say that you have noticed that the size of the occupied part of the disk, having the True Image has gradually increased by five gigabytes - do you mean that the size of the Windows 10 system drive has increased in size by 5GB?  Or do you mean that you are using the drive to store Acronis backup files?

There are a number of reasons why the Windows OS system drive might increase in size - this includes downloading Windows Updates, including new versions of Windows 10 such as the forthcoming Anniversary Update, along side with System Restore point data etc.

Please clarify the situation if I have not understood this situation correctly.

Screenshots would help.  I'm confused too.  Not sure if you've been booting into the "cloned' disk an using it - if you have disk growth is sure to happen.  If you cloned an are only using the original drive to boot into, but have both the original and clone connected, this could be the problem.  A clone is not an image - it is an exact duplicate of the original drive and is not stored in a backup format - it's just a copy. HOWEVER, after a clone, both hard drives will appear to the bios as the exact same hard drive.  As a result, you may be actually booting into the clone and not the original drive.  Long story short, after a clone, make sure to remove one of the drives and leave it disconnected unless you need to revert to the clone.  You should just just test to make sure the clone works, but disconnecting the original, booting the clone and once verifeid it boots and works, power off, remove the clone, connect the original and put your clone drive somewhere safe (leave it in the computer if you want, but just don't connect power or the SATA cable).

Dear Sirs,

My C disk size increases because of downloads. The disk containing the True Image remains stable.

I reported the opposite by mistake.

 

Thank you very much, both, for your interest and apologize for the inconvenience.

Regards

John Kanellopoulos

 

John, thank you for the feedback, glad everything is sorted for you.