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'WindowsImageBackup' - defragmenting??
Can a vhd file created by Windows 7 (image file) be defragmented, practically speaking? The file Windows has created is over 30GBs and, according to my defrag programmes, is in tens of thousands of fragments. Should I just ignore it? Is a Virtual Hard Disk file in any case a 'real' file which can be defragmented in the usual way? Is it actually defragmented in the same sense as a 'normal' file?
Even if it is theoretically possible, it looks like it would take days for my defragmenter (MyDefrag et al) to deal with it. Very tempted just to leave it (though Googling suggests that its high 'defragmentation' is a reason why I am unable to copy my Windows Image folder to an external USB drive - I get an error message (I posted about that here, but that's a separate issue:) ..
'WindowsImageBackup' folder: can't copy & paste to external USB
Thanks,
Martin