Windows 10: External HD space not restored after deleting macrium image.

I booted with macrium 7.1 rescue media usb stick. After verifying new image, deleted old image. As there is no recycle bin, I thought it is permenantly deleted. But when I booted, I found space not restored for deledted image.
I made one more image again in normal laptop boot and deleted it. Then I emptied recycle bin. Even then only space was restored for newly created and deleted image, not for old deleted image.

How to recover the space?

:)

 

Loading an image (Macrium Reflect) of my C drive into a brand-new pc to retain browser settings, etc.

Thanks for the reply Gordon. So, connect the external HD that has the image, to the new pc, boot it up, and then run the 'restore' function of Macrium Reflect, for that particular image, is that correct?

 

Need driver to restore system image from external HD?

I just upgraded win7 ultimate 64 bits to win10 pro 64 bits. My HD is partitioned in drive C (system) and drive D (only data). In windows 7 I used the backup option to save the system image on an external HD. At least once a month, I restore the image, run
all the updates and make a new system image. So I am sure that I get rid of any unwanted stuff that sneaked in without my knowledge. I have this habit since my Windows 2000 once crashed and I needed to install everything from scratch - that is when I got acronis to
do the imaging.

After I upgraded to windows 10, same way, I made a system image on my external HD plus the new restore CD. To see if the restore image will work, I booted with the restore cd and external HD connected to the usb. To my surprise, the file WindowsImageBackup
not shows on the list, like it happened in Windows 7 restore. It shows 3 options: from DVD, from network or from external HD. I chose the external HD (there is where my backup file is) and it asks me to install a driver. When I click on the button, it opens
a window where lots of files are listed, including, I was able to search the external HD for the desired driver (so if it can access my external HD, why it not finds the image file???). All files that I chose, the restore software rejected, it was not what
it wanted. I restarted windows and went to "Devices and Printers" to see what drivers are connected with the external HD, copied the drivers to the external HD, restarted with the restore CD, and no, no one of that drivers made the restore software happy.
I not know what driver it is talking about. It`s frustrating!

I made another test: copied WindowsImageBackup from external HD to drive D on computer, booted with the restore CD, but it not finds the file there also, he wants me to have it on dvds, on network or, if external hd, it wants a driver installed that I not
know what driver that is.

External HD is WD "my passport ultra metal edition 2 TB". Any idea what to do? I want to be able to restore my system images from the external HD, not from tons of DVDs that also may want, who knows, what mysterious drivers?

Has any one of you tried to restore the system image in windows 10?

 

I am afraid this is not clear. Are you saying that when you deleted image on external drive space is not freed?

Also, are you running Free version?

 

Yes, for deleted image space is not freed.
Today I downloaded free 7.1 refelect free for home. Installed and made rescue usb stick.
After verifying latest image while booting with latest rescue disk, I deleted old image. As there is no recycle bin, I thought it will be fully deleted.
But when I booted as normal laptop, I saw external HDD spacewas not freed. I made one more image in same location of external HDD and deleted it. However when I emptied recycle bin, it only emptied latest deletion. that much space for latest only freed.

 

Are you using the trial version of MR home or did you decline the offer & are using the free version?
Version 7.1 home now has Macrium Image Guardian which prevents deleting images unless from inside MR, this feature is to prevent malware from removing images to prevent recovery.

 

I am using macrium home 7.1 free.



As I saw Image Guardian needs to upgrade from free to paid version.

 

Run Treesize on external drive and post image.

 

But OP has deleted file. MIG just does not allow you to delete it and you get an error.nessage albeit obscure.

I have actually turned MIG off as I save backups offline, and regularly make/delete images, and frankly it just gets in my way.

 

I was thinking the backup image wasn’t fully deleted. Also that the OP had begun using the trial of the full version when he/she downloaded the free version.

 

Thanks for the response. I have copied all folders from problematic external HDD to laptop and another external drive and formatted that drive. Hence I can not do it.

As I have said and put the pic, I have installed and used only home free 7.1. I have not used trial version.

 

Then mark this thread as closed as there is nothing else we can do.