Why does File and byte count different on restoring to new hard drive from Norton Ghost 12 backup?

Hi, I was planning to upgrade my hard drive, so backed up my old drive using Norton Ghost 12 to a secondary drive. Now after putting the new drive into the computer, I restored from the Norton Ghost 12 backup to the same computer. However, I see byte and file counts are different from the backup versus the restored files/folders on the target drive. Why?

Why is the file counts more in the backup and less in the restored files on the target hard drive, when I got NO errors on the screen on restoring from Norton Ghost 12? Symantec Support didn’t give any “real answers” to this….just said…”oh all the files have been restored” and couldn’t explain the difference in file and byte counts.

For e.g.c:\program files has 26,718 files while the mounted recovery drive f:\program files has 26,719 files

c:\documents and settings has 17723 files and 2337 folders while the mounted recovery drive f:\documents and settings has

17,715 files and 2335 folders

In the latest example the restored c:\documents and settings has MORE files that the mounted recovery(backed up) drive F:\

The complete restored c:\ drive has

80,650 files(byte count: 16,875,952,393) and 7930 folders while the corresponding c:\ drive in the backups shows:

80, 612 files(16,871,326,533) and 7930 folders — Less files!!!

All help is appreciated. Symantec chat support was not helpful, unfortunately.

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