[G4] fragmentation

[James Asherman]

On Jan 22, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Richard Klein wrote:

>> -----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?  :-)
>
> -- 
> Rich
>


Use Carbon Copy Cloner.
Do NOT select "Block level".
Clone your files as a bootable disc ( Not a disc image ).
Boot from the newly cloned disc.
Format your original boot drive and then reverse the cloning process.
  You should be good.



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