help with MFT options

[Hank]

Again from PC Magazine February editon:
There was an article about preventing your MFT from becoming
fragmented over time since it is a unmoveable file. They direct you
to open registry editor and navagate to
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Filesystem.
Double click on the NtfsMftZoneReservation value on the right side and
enter a number between 2 and 4 etc." Navagated to location but only
entry that has anything about Ntfs is "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"
and this has a zero value. There is a Default value above this that
is blank now.

Is this beyond Home version or am I doing something wrong?

Have Home SP2 running


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TIA
Hank

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Haven't seen your article. Look at this one. It says to *Create* a new
DWORD value called "NtfsMftZoneReservation". That's why you do not see >>

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
NtfsMftZoneReservation


Control How NTFS Reserves Space for its Master File Table
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1016/


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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
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