richinrenton Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 CCleaner trial shows it is wiping $MFT files but after CCleaner runs the $MFT are still on my computer SSD drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted October 9, 2019 Moderators Share Posted October 9, 2019 The option is "Wipe MFT Free Space" - not delete the MFT. (Which is not something you should do anyway, it would make your computer unusable). From the CCleaner documentation: Quote The Master File Table (MFT) contains an index of the files on an NTFS drive. As the computer overwrites and deletes files, the MFT can accumulate free space which may contain remnants of index pointers to deleted files. You can now set CCleaner to wipe the MFT free space, just as you have been able to set it to wipe free drive space. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdbane Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 as you're using SSD, better read this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richinrenton Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 $MFT files are MFT files that have been already been deleted. These $MFT deleted files are taking up several gigabytes of space on my hard drive. I'd like to free up all that wasted space. It says on the Internet that CCleaner is the only program able to get rid of $MFT files but I've run CCleaner five times. It says it is wiping the files but doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 10, 2019 Moderators Share Posted October 10, 2019 Look here, old article but should put this to rest:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/174619 To quote one line from that article: Quote Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/174619 The MFT Zone is not subtracted from available (free) drive space used for user data files, it is only space that is used last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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