CONFUSING backup results

Newly installed TrueImage 10. Separate external 80G HD "J" for backups.
First Full backup of "C" Drive ..contents = 33,724,137.472
Review on completion to "J".....contents = 26,474,454,016

Why the difference..?? 7,249,683,456

 

What do you mean by "Review on completion" ?

How many backups have you made?
Where did you save your "First Full backup to"?
What file system are you using on each partition ?
Are you running with disk compression?

F.

 

As clearly stated TI #10 "new installation" Obviously first and only "1" BU.
Saved to the new external HD "J" as also stated.
NTFS (1) partition
No compression

 

Or, perhaps not so clearly stated

The way I read it first time round was that you were saying in your original post that the size of the first full backup was 33,724,137.472

Rereading it, I now suspect that this size has nothing to do with the back up but is the size of the contents of the source disk you were backing up. If that is the case then you are probably running with normal compression enabled.


F.

 

This sounds like the normal factory compression for TI. Unless yo picked "no compression" when you back up an Image.