Dear TinyBit,
Thank you for your clarification.
About defragmentation, if the partition itself is scattered with other files
and have no continuous free space sufficient to host the image file, we
need to defrag the partition first. We have no plan to do a partition
defragmentation programme now.
But there are some other ways to work around the problem:
1. a. defragment the partition first
b. find & reserve sufficient continuous free space for the image file
c. write the image file onto it
2. under Win2000 / XP, create an empty image file and mount it up
using filedisk, then copy all the files you need one by one into the
image file -- you may then use our WINDRV or other utility to turn
it into a bootable hard disk image file and copy it onto the hard disk
with WINDRV
3. under Win9x / ME, we have a utility called FATimage to create an
empty image file of FAT 16 / 32 partition and to help copy files into
it continuously -- after that use our WINDRV or other utility to turn
it into a bootable hard disk image file and copy it onto the hard disk
with WINDRV
Please note the use of FATimage should not be done in where the M$
patents on long-file-name handling are in force if the files you copy with
FATimage have long-file-name.
We shall release details about this later.