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I have used trial version of Acronis True Image 2010 to clone my hard drive, I keep one of them for backup purpose because, I don't think creating an image of a hard drive and storing the image on the same hard drive is a good backup practice. I have the destination drive with less free space than the source drive. I have used the Drive clone feature of the software. I have used Norton Save & Restore, it creates a perfect backup of the drive with no loss of free space. I am curious on why I am losing 63+ Mega Bytes of disk space when using Acronis True Image 2010 on the destination drive? Should they both have the same free space?

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Hello Random,

Thank you for using Acronis Products

Most probably the discrepancy in free space is due to EISA or diagnostic partition which was not transferred to a destination hard drive. Please create screen shot of Disk Management on both destination and source drive and attach to your next reply (Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management).

I built this computer and I am 100% sure that both destination and Source drive have only one partition. As you can see in the above attachment, both drives have the same size partition, just the destination drive lost about 64 Megs of space. I tried also tried using TI in VMware to see if I can replicate the problem, and sure enough it does the same in VMware. However when I tried re-cloning but in reverse the difference is no longer there in VMware. I think I did find the culprit on why I lost 64 Megs of space. After I used the TI software, I also happened to notice that some of the NTFS metafiles have grown. "$LOGFILE" have blossomed the most almost to 64 Megs, so I think that file is what caused the space lost. Normally these metafiles cannot be viewed under normal condition, as they are hidden by Windows regardless if the option in Windows to view hidden files is enabled or not. I do not know if this is a bug in the software or not, but at least I think I know where the space have gone, and everyone reading this post will know too.
Thanks for your reply.