Hello,
I was curious to know if defragging a partition that is an image of another
partition would destroy it ?

No, Data is Data and simply making (attempting to make) a file
contiguous wouldn't affect the integrity of it. However, most times
an image is very large so defragmenting it will take a long time.

"Mani" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I was curious to know if defragging a partition that is an image of
> another
> partition would destroy it ?

"Mani" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:8BF9DD69-9155-48C9-A424-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
> I was curious to know if defragging a partition that is an image of
> another
> partition would destroy it ?

Would use another word, rather than destroy. Unusable is possible if the
defragmentation botches. I would check the resulting file with the explorer
portion of the imaging program to reverify it.
Dave

"Mani" wrote
> Hello,
> I was curious to know if defragging a partition that is an image of
> another
> partition would destroy it ?

Not it should not affect the image, it's just a file, assuming nothing goes
wrong during the defragmentation process. But defragmenting a large file
won't necessarily get any performance improvement in reading the file. It
depends on how many fragments and how small those fragments are. Also since
the file is only going to be used a very limited number of times, what is to
be gained?

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]