Systems and method relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for fragmenting a data set and recovering the fragmented data set. As one example, a data processing system is discussed that includes: a fragmenting circuit operable to separate a data set into at least a first fragment and a second fragment; and a transfer packet formation circuit operable to: append identification information to the front of the first fragment, and at least a first M+N bits of the second fragment to the end of the first fragment to yield a first transfer fragment, and aggregate the first transfer fragment with other transfer fragments to yield an aggregate output.