Acronis thinks the entire hard disk is full
Hello,
When I do a full backup of my C: hard drive from the Emergency CD, Acronis thinks that the hard drive is completely full and copies all of it. This may be tied to the other problem I posted here - that Acronis says there are bad sectors but Check Disk does not say that when I run it.
My hard drive has an overall size of 300 GB and it is about half full (so around 150 GB). When I first installed Windows 7, Acronis correctly backed up the 150 GB and did not report any bad sector errors.
After normal use for a week, I did a full backup again (with a few new programs added, but nothing out of the ordinary). This time, Acronis said the full hard drive had to be backed up and also said there were bad sectors.
I have Acronis True Image Home 2010 and Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate. I am NOT using Bit Locker.
Thanks in advance for some information on this.

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Hello Fungus,
No, I did exactly the same style of backup that I did when the Windows 7 installation was new. I did NOT check the "sector by sector" box. And even before I had a chance to check it (if I wanted to do so), it already showed that 300 GB had to be backed up. I clearly only have around 150 GB on the hard drive.
Since I didn't get any answer to my "bad sector" post, I would also welcome any information on that. It says I have bad sectors and should run Check Disk, but Check Disk does not say there are bad sectors - and I have downloaded the recommended SNPAPI file etc. - nothing helps.
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MS:
I had a "bad sectors" error some time ago on an external IDE drive. Nothing could be done to fix it. Some days later it somehow resolved itself and never happened again.
If I had the time I'd try to reformat the questionable drive. As an experiment, I'd reformat as NTFS if it was now FAT, or if it is FAT now, make it NTFS. This would give the drive a whole new "personality" and then see what TI has to say about bad sectors, and image size, when you write a backup to it.
Fungus
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