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Image size/ compression
Oct 20^th, 2005 at 1:25pm

My C: drive is 15 gig total with 7.3 gig used, and my Ghost images with fast compression are 3.4 gig. Over %50 compression. I only have Win XP and programs on it, Documents are on another partition. This seems to be much greater compression than I've seen most people report in this forum. I have restored several images already and all works fine. I was just wondering what compression rates other users are getting. Could it be that because they are mostly small system and text files that they compress easily?

OK, my sons puter is 9 gig used, and 6.3 gig Images. around %70 compression. He has lots of games on his.

Any thoughts on this?

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Re: Image size/ compression
Reply #1 - Oct 20^th, 2005 at 6:51pm

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Where is your swap file located? How big is it?

Not all files are saved to an image--from Norton Ghost™ User’s Guide, page 69:

Quote:

When Norton Ghost creates image files or clones, it does not include hibernation
and swap files. These files are valid only for one Windows session, and when they
are included in an image file, they make it significantly larger.

Norton Ghost implements file skipping differently for each type of file system.

FAT file systems: Files are not included on the image file or destination disk.

NTFS file systems: A file with the same name is created on the image file or
destination disk, but the contents of the file are not copied.

The following files are skipped on all file systems:
-- 386Spart.par
-- Amizvsus.pmf
-- Dos data.sf
-- Ghost.dta
-- Hiberfil.sys
-- Hibrn8.dat
-- Hybern8
-- Navsysl.dat
-- Navsysr.dat
-- Pagefile.sys
-- Pm_hiber.bin
-- Save2dsk.bin
-- Saveto.dsk
-- Spart.par
-- Swapper.dat
-- Toshiber.dat
-- Virtpart.dat
-- Win386.swp

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	Re: Image size/ compression Reply #2 - Oct 21^st, 2005 at 11:06am Yes, I knew that but was not thinking about it. my pagefile is 1.5 gig. that helps explain a lot. thanks for pointing out the obvious.
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	Re: Image size/ compression Reply #3 - Oct 29^th, 2005 at 6:08pm ??Using GHOST 90 ?I cloned my drive onto a new drive for the purpose of booting the PC in case of a catastrophic failure to the existing drive . I then swapped the cables so the cloned drive is the primary. Windows 2000 PRO boots but stopped because there is no pagefile on the cloned drive. How do I get passed this?
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	Re: Image size/ compression Reply #4 - Oct 30^th, 2005 at 1:06am A few more details could help. What error message are you seeing?
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	Re: Image size/ compression Reply #5 - Oct 30^th, 2005 at 11:03am The error message Virtiual Memory Limited Your computer either has no page file or the pagesize needs to be increased. Go to control panel and increase page size. However at this point system freezes up and does not respond to keyboard
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	Re: Image size/ compression Reply #6 - Oct 30^th, 2005 at 6:33pm Page File Does this help?
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Re: Image size/ compression
Reply #7 - Oct 31^st, 2005 at 8:57am

Hi Brian

Thanks for responding. I signed on originally as guest. I am the person having the problem. Any ideas. I tried coming up in safemode and encountered the same issue. I think my file system is NFTS which according to a previous post , GHOST should have created an empty placeholder for pagefile. I am tried looking for pagefile.sys on the original drive, but can't find it. Perhaps it is hidden

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	Re: Image size/ compression Reply #8 - Oct 31^st, 2005 at 5:27pm bikergink, Did my Page File link show you how to fix it?
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