Defrag before copying files to new drive?

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Wayne Youngman

Hello,

I was wondering. . . .I have an old 20GB IBM ATA/66 hard-drive that is full
of all my personal data. I won't to copy all this stuff to a new drive.
Will the process of copying from one drive to another *defrag* the files, or
do I have to defrag the files before I copy?

haha funny question, but I'm not sure of the answer. I kinda think just the
process of copying it to the new drive will defrag it?
 
If the target hd has contiguous space for the source files then yes
they will essentially end up defrag'd on the target *if* only one copy
command (or drag/drop) was performed (if you perform multiple copies
or drag/drops simultaneously then the files will get
interleaved/fragmented).
 
If the target hd has contiguous space for the source files then yes
they will essentially end up defrag'd on the target *if* only one copy
command (or drag/drop) was performed (if you perform multiple copies
or drag/drops simultaneously then the files will get
interleaved/fragmented).
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Hi,
ok thanks for reply. It would be a clean hard-disk with the contents of the
old one *Dragged n dropped* across in one go. . .
 
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