Defrag before copying files to new drive?

[Wayne Youngman]

Hello,

I was wondering. . . .I have an old 20GB IBM ATA/66 hard-drive that is full
of all my personal data. I won't to copy all this stuff to a new drive.
Will the process of copying from one drive to another *defrag* the files, or
do I have to defrag the files before I copy?

haha funny question, but I'm not sure of the answer. I kinda think just the
process of copying it to the new drive will defrag it?

 

[Markeau]

If the target hd has contiguous space for the source files then yes
they will essentially end up defrag'd on the target *if* only one copy
command (or drag/drop) was performed (if you perform multiple copies
or drag/drops simultaneously then the files will get
interleaved/fragmented).

 

[Wayne Youngman]

If the target hd has contiguous space for the source files then yes
they will essentially end up defrag'd on the target *if* only one copy
command (or drag/drop) was performed (if you perform multiple copies
or drag/drops simultaneously then the files will get
interleaved/fragmented).

Hi,
ok thanks for reply. It would be a clean hard-disk with the contents of the
old one *Dragged n dropped* across in one go. . .