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Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by patrick013, 2010/06/18.

  1. 2010/06/18
    patrick013

    patrick013 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hello,

    If I image a hard drive partition and restore to the same hard drive will the restored result be fragment free ? Just wondering ? I need to do this
    eventually and one software vendor claims they defragment the image if you upgrade to a more expensive version. I thought the restored drive would
    be fragment free anyway.

    Thanks,

    Patrick
     
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    Christer

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    patrick013,
    please don't hijack other threads. I moved your post to its own thread.

    My experience with imaging software is limited to Norton Ghost 2003. Restoring and image created by this application results in a defragmented partition.
     
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    TonyT

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    I use Ghost and have always defragged the drive prior to imaging. The result is the exact duplicate of the drive.

    If you make an image of a fragmented drive you get an image that contains the same fragmentation as the drive.

    I would never defrag the image itself because that won''t have any effect on the restored drive anyway. Think about it, there's two drives or two partitions, the original and the one that stores the image file.
     
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    patrick013

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    I think if you do a raw image, the whole drive, it's fragmented.
    But if you do an intelligent image, just the used part, it restores
    without fragments. Is this correct ? My main concern is to restore
    without fragments, there are just hundreds of them.

    Does Ghost allow you to boot off a flash drive to restore ? That's
    the other feature I need with a new program.

    Thanks,

    Patrick013
     
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    TonyT

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    I have a bootable usb flash drive with Ghost that I made custom because I sometimes work on laptops that don't have a cdrom drive. But I use an older version, Ghost 2003. The newer versions IMHO are bloated and have features I would never need, but they may have a built in option to make a bootable flash drive, but I doubt it.
     
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    patrick013

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    Well I cannot get all the fragments out and the images are telling
    me they're corrupted then. Fewer fragments fewer corrupted
    images apparently. But it does reduce the corruption.

    Still looking for a boot up program to just backup and restore
    with. Tried a LINUX copy and paste procedure but gave it up,
    just don't trust it completely. A few strange errors and a symbolic
    link error regarding .NET Framework.

    Probably need to try Active Boot Disk for Windows sometime.

    Thanks,

    Patrick
     
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