Windows xp mft settings

Defragmenting it will help your performance. The built-in defragmenter will not defragment the MFT. Microsoft recommends that you adjust the amount of space that is reserved for the MFT, then back up your drive, and then do a full reformat and then restore your whole drive. This seems like way too much effort expended to me. Thread starter toimub Start date Jul 10, Status This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies.

The original thread starter may use the Report button to request it be reopened but anyone else with a similar issue should start a New Thread. Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Joined Jul 10, Messages It had previously been at 98 percent, but removing all but the most recent restore point seems to have worked for a time, dropping it back to 86 percent in use.

But after installing the service pack 3 for Windows, the MFT jumped right back up to 99 percent. The concern is that, won't it now start to fragment the MFT, seeing as the allotted space is almost all in use?

And will this cause performance issues? And most importantly, what can be done about this? In this article it states that you can increase the MFT zone by means of changing the value number using the Registry Editor. This seems like a drastic step to me, and I'm wondering if maybe something else could be tried first.

Like perhaps using a reliable third-party defragmenter to reclaim MFT space occupied by deleted file entries? Thanks for any help and advice.

I did find someone else talking about this on another pay to use forum, and it was suggested that the MFT Zone might expand automatically, up to the allotted total This makes sense to me for a couple reasons. I didn't do the math but even the MFT Zone's It doesn't add up.

Only 3 fragments? Unless it starts to dramatically fragment, it must be expanding as it needs to. And unless it does start to fragment and cause performance issues, I can't see trying a third-party defragmenter. Responses or additional comments and suggestions from anyone who has dealt with this issue would still be appreciated. Joined May 23, Messages SpeeDefrag is a simple program, that restarts your computer and runs defrag.

Once the defrag process has finished, it can optionally shut down your PC, otherwise reboot it. Thanks for the advice! But none of the above will really gain you significant amounts of space for very long. The only long term solution is a bigger hard drive. In the meantime, download and run JDiskReport , which will graphically show you what files are taking up the most space and thus suggest what files you should move to another drive.

If you want to move an application to another drive either external or internal , you'll have to uninstall it and then reinstall it specifying the other drive as the install location. You can't simply move the files.

Even so, many applications will place some files on the system drive i. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Hi I am constantly getting Low disc space messages [only 6mb of free space available].

I'm using gb My brother is using This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 2.