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fragmentation: orig. vs. clone

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If I don't defrag the original (source) drive, will the new (cloned) drive/part. contain the same fragments? Or will new clone be unfragmented?
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Hello KH,

thank you for your question.

I'll be glad to help you!

If you clone the disk, you copy all contents of one hard disk drive onto another hard disk drive: as a result, both the source and the target disk have the same data. Moreover, the data is placed in the same order.

So, if date on source disk were fragmented, the target disk after cloning will also need defragmentation.

Let me know if you have further questions.

Thank you.