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Old October 21st 13, 08:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
W[_2_]
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Default Disk Uses More Space Than Size of Files

"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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W wrote:
The backup files are being made by Acronis True Image.


Ahhh. I use that, too. You didn't happen to use their "Try & Decide"
feature, did you? T&D demands the use of the Acronis Secure Zone (ASZ),
a separate partition on a hard disk formatted as FAT32 but uses a
non-standard partition type number in the MBR.

In fact, if you try to use T&D, you get somewhat screwed in that it
demands it usurp the bootstrap code in the MBR which obviates using the
Acronis Recovery Manager that also usurps the MBR bootstrap area. Only
1 can usurp the MBR bootstrap code at a time. If you want Acronis
Recovery Manager then you cannot use T&D. If you want to use T&D, you
have to forego availability of the Acronis Recovery Manager. Of course,
using either of these obviates using any other program that wants to
usurp the MBR bootstrap area (e.g., GAG, a multi-boot manager that
resides wholly outside any partition). In older versions, Acronis
Recovery Manager and T&D were compatible. It was in the last version,
or two, they changed it so they were mutually exclusive because they
changes T&D to want to usurp the MBR bootstrap code.

If you are saving your backup images in the ASZ and also using T&D then
both the image backups and T&D's virtual disk share the same partition.
Make sure T&D is disabled (off). If it is then maybe there is a problem
with it releasing the disk space in the ASZ partition. It could be that
the space for T&D is merely "reserved". That means if T&D is disabled
that Acronis will use that space for its backups. Reserved doesn't
necessarily mean inuse.


No, I did not use Try and Decide.

And I long ago learned to never use products that modify the MBR.

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W


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