Acronis Master image Creator massive image!

I am creating an image from a computer that has a 73 gig drive. Only 4 gigs is used. When I begin making the image, it says that my image size will be 2.x gigs. Then the process just runs endlessly filling up my drive. Last time I canceled it, the image had grown to 14 gigs.

This image was originally on a different set of hardware, I used universal restore to the new machine, and proceeded to make a image. That is when it grew in size.

Any help is greatly appreciated,
-M

 

Check to see if the acronis software is detecting any errors on the drive. If there are bad sectors the software seems to create a byte by byte image. If you are unable to repair the errors or everything checks out fine consider manually resizing the partition before imaging.