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Defrag external drive MFT?


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#1 OFFLINE   Amtrak7

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Posted 01 March 2009 - 08:31 PM

How do I defragment the MFT on an external drive? The boot-time defrag on other software doesn't work, as it is a USB drive.

#2 OFFLINE   Jaunty

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Posted 08 March 2009 - 12:32 PM

Defraggle won't defrag any MFT's, if the drive isn't on defraggler's drive list. What is MFT? Will it even fragmentate?

#3 OFFLINE   Caerbannog

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Posted 16 March 2009 - 03:10 PM

View PostJaunty, on Mar 8 2009, 08:32 AM, said:

Defraggle won't defrag any MFT's, if the drive isn't on defraggler's drive list. What is MFT? Will it even fragmentate?

This would be a heck of a handy feature to have!
As I have not found any reliable MFT cleanup tools available.

1st post!

Ohhh sorry, MFT is Microsoft's Master File table, replaced the FAT and FAT32. Problem is it maintains itself, just not very well.