Image of Win XP with NTFS...?

[oc9ine]

Hi,

I have win xp sp2 with NTFS on all my drive volumes.

I created image of my drive C: using Norton Ghost 10 but image was huge in
size considering my C: drive is 20 gig total having 10 gig free. Image has
size of almost 6 gigs. How can make smaller?

Is there any alternative program to Norton ghost?

Plz do not advice me to post this thing on Nortom ghost concerning news
site, plz help me bcuz this concerns Win XP also.

Thanx.


Oc9ine

 

[Gordon]

Hi,

I have win xp sp2 with NTFS on all my drive volumes.

I created image of my drive C: using Norton Ghost 10 but image was huge in
size considering my C: drive is 20 gig total having 10 gig free. Image has
size of almost 6 gigs. How can make smaller?

I think you are confused. On your own admission, the C drive is 20 GB in
total with 10 GB free space. that means that the C drive contains 10 GB of
files.
You then say that the image is "huge" at a size 6GB and you want to make it
smaller! It already IS smaller than the size of files on the C drive! It
already IS compressed.

 

[Zilbandy]

I created image of my drive C: using Norton Ghost 10 but image was huge in
size considering my C: drive is 20 gig total having 10 gig free. Image has
size of almost 6 gigs. How can make smaller?

Is there any alternative program to Norton ghost?

I use Acronis True Image, but the size of your image in comparison to
the used space on your hard drive seems resonable to me. It has
compressed 10gb down to 6gb. Acronis takes my 16gb of data and cruches
it down to 12gb, which is not quite as 'good' as yours.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

I have win xp sp2 with NTFS on all my drive volumes.

I created image of my drive C: using Norton Ghost 10 but image was huge in
size considering my C: drive is 20 gig total having 10 gig free. Image has
size of almost 6 gigs. How can make smaller?

Is there any alternative program to Norton ghost?

Plz do not advice me to post this thing on Nortom ghost concerning news
site, plz help me bcuz this concerns Win XP also.

Thanx.


Oc9ine

Imaging programs usually achieve a compression rate of around
50%. If your Windows installation consumes 10 GBytes then an
image file of 6 GBytes is reasonable.

Some imaging programs offer an option for a higher compression
rate, e.g. Acronis TrueImage. Even though you don't want to
hear it, a Norton FAQ site would tell you if this facility is available
for Ghost. Contrary to what you think, this has nothing to do with
Windows.

 

[HeyBub]

Hi,

I have win xp sp2 with NTFS on all my drive volumes.

I created image of my drive C: using Norton Ghost 10 but image was
huge in size considering my C: drive is 20 gig total having 10 gig
free. Image has size of almost 6 gigs. How can make smaller?

Is there any alternative program to Norton ghost?

Plz do not advice me to post this thing on Nortom ghost concerning
news site, plz help me bcuz this concerns Win XP also.

It's probably as good as it gets.

Here's a fact that will cause you to drop your donuts: The "compressed" file
for some entities is actually larger than the original!

A "compressed" anything does not automatically mean "smaller."

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi,

I have win xp sp2 with NTFS on all my drive volumes.

I created image of my drive C: using Norton Ghost 10 but image was huge in
size considering my C: drive is 20 gig total having 10 gig free. Image has
size of almost 6 gigs. How can make smaller?

You started with 10GB of files, which got compressed to 6GB. That
isn't "huge" at all, and is a very good compression ratio. Looking to
make it substantially smaller isn't at all realistic.

Is there any alternative program to Norton ghost?

There are several. My personal favorite is Acronis True Image, and I
normally stay as far away as possible from any Symantec/Norton
products.

However do not expect changing programs to give you more compression.

Plz do not advice me to post this thing on Nortom ghost concerning news
site, plz help me bcuz this concerns Win XP also.

No, it doesn't. It's not a Windows issue at all. The only issue here
is that your expect ions of what compression can achieve are not
realistic.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

It's probably as good as it gets.

Here's a fact that will cause you to drop your donuts: The "compressed" file
for some entities is actually larger than the original!

A "compressed" anything does not automatically mean "smaller."

No, but in general, unless a file is already compressed, compressing
it *does* make it smaller. But if it's already compressed, all
compressing does is add the extra overhead of additional compression
without adding any more compression. So yes, the result can be
slightly larger.