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Defragging a drive where there is an image

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Why would you want to jeopardize your backups and the gain is so slight. My personal recommedation is NO.

I agree with GroverH, there is little to be gained. It is certainly possible to defrag the drive because the image files are just files that tend to be rather large. However, anytime you read and write a file you can introduce an error such as by moving a sector onto a bad or marginal sector. A restore is a process that typically takes several minutes or more and shaving a couple of seconds or so off the process is meaningless. An image is often rarely, if ever, used unlike some Windows files that are accessed hundreds of times a day.

If you decide to defrag, use TI to validate the image after defragging which will show that it didn't suffer any ill effect.

If you have a disk that contains images and data files and you are really interested in defragging the data files then you could consider setting up a separate partition for the images.