i bought norton ghost (latest) version, found that after much waiting (over 2 days!), it kinda stopped (some error problem) and now I find the bloody back-up took near 90 gb of my external what is going on?? i thought these image backup supposing takes less hard disk space?! can i compress the back up data from norton??? thanks.

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