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Is it possible to image only used sectors?

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I can't figure out how to take an image of only the used sectors on my ssd using ATI2018. I tried the option Backup Sector-by-Sector, but it backs up the unused space as well.

 

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What you are looking for is the default for the True Image app.  By design the app will only backup disk sectors that contain data.

What do you mean it did not work?  If you do not set the option "Backup sector by sector" then the default is to only backup sectors containing data.

Danny, out of interest, how is the source drive formatted that you are wanting to backup here?

If it is NTFS then this is default behaviour as already advised by Enchantech.

If it in a different format, then depending on which one, Acronis may default to using Sector-by-Sector mode simply in order to handle that filesystem format, i.e. foreign filesystems such as EXT2/3/4 used by Linux.