Hi all,

Would like to know if users had a succes making a big image of a large Partition / Drive.

Last 3 days ago i startup my system in Dos.
Started Acronis True Image 8.x
Saved a big 300 GB Partition to an Image that had to go on the 160 GB USB drive.

The UI tell's me that it needed 130 - 137 GB of space.
Well that looks like i have enough on my USB Drive.

Ofcourse i loaded the Panasonic USB driver.
(hope i hade correct options, i only thicked USB 2.0 and Some Reset switches that were allready selected)

Process start, 1 day....  2 day .... lol Yeah Acronis is NOT very fast, but i needed a backup on my USB and see if it will fit.

So, today i turned on my system and i got the error:

Not Enough Disk Space - Retry Or Cancel.

Well, there you have it Grrr 3 days of waiting with no succes.


So today i tought, how about testing the same idea but now trying it with Symantec Ghost 8.3 in Dos ?

Yeah maybe i need more space on the USB (for Compression it might need more space on teh image drive)

But what i realy like to know is waht people use if they are going to backup a large partition.
And if they had succes testing it, by deleting of wiping the partition and then test to see if a image restore of that size is safe and correct.

I still have 500 GB free space on a internel sata drive. So yeah maybe my USB 160 GB is nog enough.

Still like to know if maybe Ghost is more succesfull in doing large NTFS partitions then Acronis.

I have :

Sym Ghost 8.3 and i have Acronis TI 8.x

Anyone has had succes with one of these programs? or maybe a better one.

Waiting 5 days is not a problem, having a bad image is a problem.

Sure, just copying files as backup works aswell.. but what i try to find out is a Image tool that does a lot of GB correctly and if some users have had succes with the procudure

just clik on properties on the smaller drive and select "compress to save space" then drop n drag ya lazy bugger  

ps: you'll have to select around 150GB of data in case there's that gaye "not enough disk space" then drop files in lots at a time,it should'nt take long depending on hdd speed