Macrium Reflect Image Size

I bought the new v7 Home version and to my surprise the OS image is 48.6GB while the OS drive is only 42.7GB! I might as well clone instead of image to save space. What gives? Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

because it's compressed. I disable compression for faster imaging/restoration

 

How does compression make an image larger than the original?

Coincidentally I noticed something similar same today: when making an incremental image of 1.5 GB of new data the "compressed" image was 2.5 GB...

 

@XIII - what are you using to determine the above "1.5gB of new data?"

 

File size in Windows Explorer.

 

oh sorry I misread that, I thought he was saying why is the image smaller than the original OS size. That's weird.

 

I would have misread it as well, if I did not happen to bump into a similar issue today...

Wonder if we find out why it's larger...

 

Yeah that's strange for me, on a fresh Windows install, backing up the C: partition which is around 20 GB results in a 6-7 GB backup file in Macrium Reflect with the default medium compression rate. Something's not right here unless he has done this tweak which disables NTFS compression. (I stopped doing that tweak as it causes compression programs like WinRAR and backup images to not work properly)

 

Figured it out. Dell image and tools are added to the OS partition. Thanks for your answers.