Stupid Defrag Question

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In message <[email protected]> Ed Light
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.
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No such thing in normal operation -- However, when it comes to
recovering from corrupted allocation tables, fragmentation is your
enemy.
 
Keith said:
Thanks Ed. So it's defrag then image by the sound of it.
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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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