Ghost/Defrag Question

[muthabored]

I have Dell Latitude D600 that's responding extremely slow (login takes forever whether connected to LAN or not), applications take forever to open or freeze during use, etc.
I ran a diag on the hard drive and it came up clean but the hard drive is SEVERELY fragmented. I want to ghost the hard drive to a known working one...will the fragmentation go right along with it?

 

[xwb]

Hard to tell because I've never ghosted a fragmented drive. I've only ever done it after installing all the packages I want. Do you have a spare PC you could dump the ghost on?

 

[muthabored]

I've just ghosted the one laptop hard drive to another (new) and it actually appears to carry the fragmentation over to the new drive (I guess because it's operating system related and has little to do with the physical drive itself).

 

[xwb]

Sounds like it will actuall do the defragmentation for you.

 

[jimp56]

ghost images definitely carry the same level of fragmentation as the original drive.