Defragging

What ho one and all,

Not sure of the correct section, so I hope this is OK.

Running XP Pro, a couple of my partitions are around 80% full. So there is not a lot of space available for defragging. Rather than attempting to defrag the normal way, is it an idea to copy the data to another drive, format the original partition to clean it and then copy the data back. This is assuming what I have always been lead to believe, that data copied to a clean drive, is automatically complied rather than in fragments.

Is this correct?

Toodle pip

Rex

In theory, that should work for your data partitions.

How many partitions do you have?

Too many, but I have sufficient to copy the data. The one in particular has too many tif files (it is my PhotoShop working file) and a lot of movies. I do need to tidy it, but there is only around 10% free space at the moment and defragging sometime stops due to lack of free space.