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Stupid Defrag Question
Keith Wilby wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in message It was just a pig ignorant steaming turd. Keith, we have Rod Speed filtered out. He's not human. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Stupid Defrag Question
In message Ed Light
was claimed to have wrote: Nope, it makes no difference to the speed of the image creation and its pointless defragging modern drives except in the most unusual situations. Though it may not apply to NTFS, I keep remembering what I read in my first DOS manual. It said to defrag regularly enough to keep the OS from getting confused and losing a fragment. No such thing in normal operation -- However, when it comes to recovering from corrupted allocation tables, fragmentation is your enemy. |
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Stupid Defrag Question
Keith Wilby wrote:
"Ed Light" wrote in message ... Keith Wilby wrote: If I take a backup image of a fragmented drive and restore it onto a new one, does the new one inherit the fragmentation from the image? Yes Thanks Ed. So it's defrag then image by the sound of it. Up until a few months ago, I would've suggested to you not to take an image backup of your drive, but rather do a file copy operation instead to defrag the new drive. However, a few months ago, I did exactly that and I found that new drive was not defragged by the operation, and in fact somehow became more fragmented! There was a bit of debate in this newsgroup about it back then, and many theories were postulated. Yousuf Khan |
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Stupid Defrag Question
"Keith Wilby" wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote: Nope, no point in defragging before imaging with True Image. True Image takes care of that? I don't know about True Image, but Casper (a dedicated cloning utility) makes a clone of whatever is there - fragmentation and all. It just makes a direct copy of each sector, oblivious to whatever file formatting that the sector contains. To the cloner, it's all just "contents". As a result, the clone has the same degree of fragmentation that the "parent" partition had. After I make a clone, I boot it up and take a look at a few folders and files, then I shut it down and boot up the "parent" and use the "parent" to defragment the clone. (I seem to get a "tighter" defrag if it's done by another OS.) Then I boot up the clone again, and I take a look at a few folders and files and run some programs to see if the clone still works. Then, still running the clone, I turn around and defragment the "parent". Then I shut down the clone and test the "parent" again. It may sound tedious, but it saves me the anguish of having an OS scrambled by the defrag without having a backup. *TimDaniels* |
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