[G4] fragmentation

[Richard Klein]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyranny Bean
> 
> Also, if I were to try to salvage my files on my fragmented HD by cloning
> the drive to another, would the fragmentation clone as well? Or, could I
> clone the drive to another, reformat the fragmented drive and re-clone it
> back to the reformatted drive - or would I be re-cloning the fragmentation
> back onto the reformatted drive? Hope I that made sense.

*If* the drive cloning works the way I think it does, and copies files
instead of individual bits, then it won't clone the fragmentation, but if it
clones bit-by-bit, putting each bit in exactly the same
track/sector/whatever it was in before, then it will clone the
fragmentation.  I'd be surprised if any program you'd use would work that
way, though.  A hardware drive cloner that you might use if you wanted to
make hundreds or thousands of cloned drives, would probably do a bit-by-bit
clone.

I'm just guessing on all that, but it sounds good, doesn't it?  :-)

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Rich