Keith said: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?
Ed Light said:
Keith Wilby said: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?
Arno said:Depends on your imager. Typically yes.
And you should backup before defragging.
Arno
Thanks Ed. So it's defrag then image by the sound of it.
Keith said:Thanks Ed. So it's defrag then image by the sound of it.
Rod Speed said:Nope, no point in defragging before imaging with True Image.
True Image takes care of that?
Rod said:Keith Wilby 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.
David Brown said:There are few people who would say that, but it is true. Fragmentation
causes a bit of slowdown for disk access, but it's not a big effect, and
not nearly as big a problem as many people think. Running a defrag won't
help much in reality - either you're running windows, and windows will
immediately fragment the disk again as soon as you're finished, or you are
running Linux (or another OS) that has a sane block allocator and
generates very little unnecessary fragmentation.
Ed said: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.
David said:Ed Light wrote:
You are mixing something up, or there is a typo in your post. NTFS was
introduced with Windows NT (NT 3.51 perhaps) - DOS never supported NTFS.
And the OS should not get mixed up even if there are lots of fragments
(although windows is not exactly renowned for being bug-free).
Rod Speed wrote
There are few people who would say that, but it is true. Fragmentation causes a bit of slowdown for disk access, but
it's not
a big effect, and not nearly as big a problem as many people think.
Running a defrag won't help much in reality - either you're running windows, and windows will immediately fragment the
disk again as soon as you're finished,
Ed said: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.
David Brown wrote
I did say "though it may not apply to NTFS." Of course DOS was olden times.
Like you say, Windows isn't perfect. I keep it defragged just to feel safe.
I definitely *have* found that defragging increses performance.
Rod Speed said:Doesnt apply to FAT either.
It was just a pig ignorant steaming turd.
That never ever happens.
I never ever defrag and have never ever lost a fragment and have both FAT
and NTFS partitions.
Keith said:So in a nutshell I've been wasting my time p1ss-balling about defragging.
Yep.
That's good to know, I won't waste any more time, not on defrags anyway.