Disk editing/large file

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I have a 120Gb hard disk that has no paging file set on that drive, System
restore is off for that drive too but when I use Diskeeper it shows a very
large chunk of the drive (around 12.5%) is reserved system in one long
contiguous block. I've searched the drive with the system and hidden files
on and it doesn't show anything. Scandisks ok. The drive isn't partitioned.
What can this be and how do I get rid of it/reduce its size? Other drives
have system restore set at 3% and this takes far more than that- 12.5%, 8%
on other drives.

Thanks!

Are there any free programs like Norton used to have that shows the
directory structure- I tried a newish Norton and it no longer seems to have
the disk editor.
 
Thanks. How is it that it is so large on some drives, and that the size and
position vary so much (one is around 7% compared to around 12.5% on others)?
On one drive it is at the very end, 2 at about 2/3 rds of the way through,
and one at 3/4 ?

It seems a very large overhead- perhaps it's worth shifting back to FAT.
 
The size will vary with the total space of the partition. Using XP's
native Disk Management, you'll have a 12.5% allocation of the
size for the MFT.

I use Raxco's Perfect Disk. Their defragmenting algorithm follows MS
recommended placement at around 4.0 Gigabytes from the start of a
partition. However, depending on what content exists, Perfect Disk
will shift the MFT placement around to accommodate existing data.
Perfect Disk has a Offline (Pre-GUI) defrag mode that can shift or
place system files (MFT, others) more efficiently than while doing a
on-line defrag session.

You can define/increase the MFT allocation - but reducing it isn't
possible (based on the latest info I understand).
 
Thanks for the information.


R. McCarty said:
The size will vary with the total space of the partition. Using XP's
native Disk Management, you'll have a 12.5% allocation of the
size for the MFT.

I use Raxco's Perfect Disk. Their defragmenting algorithm follows MS
recommended placement at around 4.0 Gigabytes from the start of a
partition. However, depending on what content exists, Perfect Disk
will shift the MFT placement around to accommodate existing data.
Perfect Disk has a Offline (Pre-GUI) defrag mode that can shift or
place system files (MFT, others) more efficiently than while doing a
on-line defrag session.

You can define/increase the MFT allocation - but reducing it isn't
possible (based on the latest info I understand).
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