scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> > Exactly how is that going to help?

> Well just the act of copying it over to another hard drive will probably 
> defragment it

  Copying what over? The entire Windows installation?

  I'm not exactly sure XP survives such a transfer while still being fully
bootable from the new drive. Does it?

  (I know from experience that a linux system can be fully transferred from
one disk to another with a simple "cp -ax", and it will then work identically
when the disks are swapped. However, I have got the impression that with
Windows it's not that easy.)

  Anyways, it's just one fragmented file. It's not such a big deal. I'm just
wondering *why* the small files are not being compacted to the beginning of
the partition in order to create a larger contiguous empty space.

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