Which application allocated data before copy to reduce fragmentation ?

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    #1 mdfm, Jan 12, 2016
    Which application allocated data before copy to reduce fragmentation ?

    When copying large chuck of photo jpeg using default windows 7 copy to a backup hard disk , I gets full of 12% fragmentation after analyze the backup hard disk.

    Hoping for expert user recommend a technique or a application which allocated the file sector before copying or moving.
    A good sync application will do too.
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    #2 mdfm, Mar 11, 2016 (OP)
    Awaits for assistant :worthy:
     
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    #3 Verified, Mar 19, 2016
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    I use robocopy to avoid fragmentation. The first run creates a directory structure like your source tree (with all jpegs as zero bytes files). The second run replaces those zero byte files with the actual data.

    It will create a directory/file layout like this:
    DDDDFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
    instead of:
    DFFFFFFFFFFDFFFFFFDFFFFFFFFFDFFFFFFFFDFFFFFFFFFFFFDFFFFFF

    Code:
    robocopy /np /r:0 /w:0 /e /create <source-path> <dest-path>
robocopy /np /r:0 /w:0 /e         <source-path> <dest-path>