Small Image taking up Big space.

[Tom Elliott]

I’m not understanding.

What is using 81 gigs? It’s USING 81 gigs? or the drive size is 81Gigs?

[Hatch]

Let me try and clarify.

Here is the drive i created the image of.

So that makes sense that the Image is 37.84GiB.

Here is what happens when i install the image on another computer.

Why is my “used space” over doubling?

Sorry if i wasn’t clear, previously. I appreciate the help.

[Wayne Workman]

@Hatch Why not look into both of these drives (the source and the destination) and compare? See where the space went, and then let us know what you find?

[Junkhacker]

a good tool for that would be WinDirStat

[Hatch]

@Wayne-Workman
Will do, sir.

Just for my own clarification: On the system that i am wanting to apply the image to, i do not need to partition it. It can be unallocated when i start downloading the image to machine, correct?

[Wayne Workman]

@Junkhacker said:

a good tool for that would be WinDirStat

I use that at work - it’s awesome.

[Wayne Workman]

@Hatch said:

Just for my own clarification: On the system that i am wanting to apply the image to, i do not need to partition it. It can be unallocated when i start downloading the image to machine, correct?

Depends - there’s been issues with imaging to absolutely-blank drives in the past. It might be something to ask the @Developers about. But as long as the drive has had something on it in the past, you’re good to go.

[Hatch]

@Junkhacker

I will give WinDirStat a try. Thank you for the recommendation.

[Hatch]

Hey guys.
I figured out what the problem was. Thanks to people that recommended WinDirStat…i found the page file was the culprit.

Source machine: pagefile.sys = 57.1% = 7.9GB
Destination machine: pagefile.sys = 57.1% = 31.7GB

So i guess, turn off paging on the machine that you’re creating your master image on, then turn it back on for the destination computers?

[Junkhacker]

does that computer have 32 gigs of ram, by chance?
by default, i believe windows creates a pagefile equal in size to the amount of ram in the computer.
btw, fog automatically deletes the pagefile and hibernate files before uploading the image to the server, since they will automatically be recreated and they consume a lot of wasted space.