PDA

View Full Version : General Imaging Question

n8chavez
January 2nd, 2009, 03:04 PM
I have tried a few different imaging programs to image my one of my extended partitions, for me D: Windows says the partition is 2.96 GB, and the images are only slightly smaller than that. However, when I unhide all hidden and protected folders in D: and select them all their properties say that all those files/folders combined is 1.20 GB. Where is the rest of the space going?
Brian K
January 2nd, 2009, 03:17 PM
Nate,

Try TreeSize Free (the exe is sufficient). It should show you where the missing (or not missing) files are situated.

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

The Pro trial is much better.

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/
n8chavez
January 2nd, 2009, 03:26 PM
This has just further confused me. The pro version of the software you suggested says that D: is only 1.2 GB. See the image below.
Brian K
January 2nd, 2009, 03:35 PM
Wow. In Disk Management, what is the Capacity and Free Space of your D: drive. How large are the backup .tbi and .sna files of that partition?
n8chavez
January 2nd, 2009, 04:57 PM
The graphics wil.l speak for themselves. There is something wrong here.....
Brian K
January 2nd, 2009, 06:10 PM
-{ Quote: "There is something wrong here....." }-
But what?????

Disk Management shows 2.65 GB of data in the D: drive
The DS image is 2.6 GB
Your manual estimate of data in Windows Explorer is 1.2 GB
TreeSize Pro shows 1.2 GB of data

I suggest chkdsk /f on the D: drive and reassess these figures. Weird!

How large is a .tbi backup?
Brian K
January 2nd, 2009, 06:30 PM
If you look at that partition in BING and choose Properties, Details. What is Free and Used? This estimate will be free of Windows' influence.
n8chavez
January 2nd, 2009, 06:50 PM
I do not own BING.

But I copied all my data to another partition, Z:\, formatted d:\, and then copied everything back. The differences in image size is amazing but not unexpected; 2.47 gb then and 1.16 now. I have no idea why that is but all my data is there.

Whatever....
Brian K
January 2nd, 2009, 07:07 PM
-{ Quote: "
But I copied all my data to another partition, Z:\, formatted d:\, and then copied everything back. The differences in image size is amazing but not unexpected; 2.47 gb then and 1.16 now. " }-
That was going to be my next suggestion if you didn't find an answer. I don't know the answer.