mdonge Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Hello ! It seems to be the first topic in this part of the forum so I hope it's the good one ! There is a little problem with the mft defrag : defraggler says he can't move the start of the file (no prblem on this) but when the mft is fragmented and some files come just being the first part defraggler can't defrag it anymore. It "just" has to move file after the first part to defrag the mft easily ! (But I'm not the dev) The open source soft "ultradefrag" can do it but I don't really like his GUI >< It's just a suggestion, but if defraggler can do it, it will be wonderfull ! Have a nice day ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted July 1, 2015 Moderators Share Posted July 1, 2015 I guess you're on something later than XP. The MFT is allocated in 200 mb chunks, or fragments, which can be anywhere on the disk. The Windows defragger doesn't count any file with fragments greater than 64 mb as fragmented and doesn't touch them, so by implication the MFT won't be defragged. The point of this little story is that in some venerated circles the opinion is that there is no advantage in defragging the MFT. Perhaps Defraggler will implement your suggestion, but until then don't worry too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eL_PuSHeR Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 I have always thought that MS defragging API doesn't allow to fully defragment MFT at all. If you want to defrag MFT (mostly probably useless as Augeas points out) you will need a third party app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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