Reserved System Space

[Steve]

Hi everybody

Can somebody please explain to me what the Reserved System space is on my
Drive. I was using Diskeeper to defrag and noticed that this Reserved System
Space use's a lot of space.

Thx in advance

 

[Matthew Jones]

I would suggest that this is the amount of space that is
used by various parts of XP, i.e. Hibernation, Recycle
Bin, System Restore - things like that which generally
relate to the system.

Matthew Jones
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Hi everybody

Can somebody please explain to me what the Reserved System space is on
my Drive. I was using Diskeeper to defrag and noticed that this
Reserved System Space use's a lot of space.

Straight from the Diskeeper help file:

"Green-striped areas (on Windows NT/2000/XP systems only) show space on
the volume reserved for expansion of the MFT. This space is reserved when
a volume is formatted, and cannot be used by applications, including
Diskeeper. Windows NT/2000/XP will, however, write files to this area when
the volume becomes extremely full and no other free space is available.
Windows NT/2000/XP provides the capability for Diskeeper to move files out
of this reserved area, but does not allow Diskeeper to move files into it.
These areas appear only on NTFS volumes."
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows XP & Smart Display
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support

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