[Q:]Question about Defragmenting Data Safe HDs

"Notan" wrote in message
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Interesting Banter S.Lewis and Notan, but neither have actually answered
my
question yet.

I've got a C drive and a D drive in my computer.
The D drive is a partition of the C drive which is where Norton Ghost
writes
it's backup.

The mirrored Hard drive is invisible, and I'm assuming looks just like
the
C/D drive ( hence, the mirror.)

The original question I had was... if I defragment my C (and or/ my D
drive,) would the mirrored drive also be defragmented? If not, how do you
defragment a mirrored hard drive?

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Oh, you actually wanted an *answer* to your question! g

In that case, yes. In a RAID1 configuration, everything that's done to
your
primary drive will be done to your secondary drive.

Notan


I thought that was already covered early in this. Maintain the visible C:\
drive absolutely. It's unlikely the D:\ partition should need such since it
is reserved for the backup. (Assuming you are in no other way altering D:\).

Then your hidden drive simply mirrors that.

I did forget to mention that I hate Ghost 10, but that's another thread I
began several months ago.

Stew

I did forget to mention that I hate Ghost 10, but that's another thread I
began several months ago.

Stew

Well, I don't care much for any Norton program myself. What don't you like
about ghost 10? Just Curious.

Oh, you actually wanted an *answer* to your question! g

In that case, yes. In a RAID1 configuration, everything that's done to
your
primary drive will be done to your secondary drive.

Notan

Thank you!

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I did forget to mention that I hate Ghost 10, but that's another thread I
began several months ago.

Stew

Well, I don't care much for any Norton program myself. What don't you
like about ghost 10? Just Curious.


I simply couldn't get it (the Dell version, on a Dimension 5150) to do what
I wanted it to. It seemed overly complicated/convoluted to use, and that
particular machine was to wind up in the hands of a fairly new user who
needed a straight-forward drive/partition backup copy that was bootable.

The thread (back then) generated a fairly long discussion about which drive
copy/image apps. others were using - and there were a few.

I don't recall anyone advocating Ghost 10 or a couple of other versions of
the program strongly. Some had also had big problems with it.

There were some posters who still used older versions of Ghost they were
happy with.


fwiw

Stew