MFT Help

[Guest]

I increased the MFT Reserve in line with the recommendation made by Diskeeper
9. It is now occupying too much space. Can I reduce it again. Diskeeper does
not allow to set it back.
Thank you for helping me on this.

 

[Johnny Grub]

"Start" then "run" and type "cmd".
Here type " fsutil behavior set mftzone 1 " press Enter.
Now MFT is standard.

 

[Guest]

The size of MFT Reserve remained unchanged

"Start" then "run" and type "cmd".
Here type " fsutil behavior set mftzone 1 " press Enter.
Now MFT is standard.

 

[Pat Willener]

You can also submit a technical support request at the Diskeeper
website. They usually respond within one or two business days.

 

[Rock]

I increased the MFT Reserve in line with the recommendation made by Diskeeper
9. It is now occupying too much space. Can I reduce it again. Diskeeper does
not allow to set it back.
Thank you for helping me on this.

Open the registry editor: Start | Run | regedit | Ok

Navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

In the right hand pane look for the value name NtfsMftZoneReservation.
It can have four values 1-4 with 1 being small (default) and 4 being
Maximum. If it's set to 4 right click on the value name, choose modify
and type in a value of 1 or 2.

It's always a good idea to backup the registry when making changes. An
excellent tool for this is ERUNT. See these links:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

[Installing & Using ERUNT]
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

[ERUNT] - Direct download
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe

 

[R. McCarty]

I seem to remember in one of the Knowledge Base articles that
NTFSMftZoneReservation can't be decremented once you apply a
higher than normal value to it. Hopefully, you took an XP system
partition image before you changed the value with Diskeeper.

I increased the MFT Reserve in line with the recommendation made by
Diskeeper 9. It is now occupying too much space. Can I reduce it again.
Diskeeper does not allow to set it back.
Thank you for helping me on this.

Open the registry editor: Start | Run | regedit | Ok

Navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

In the right hand pane look for the value name NtfsMftZoneReservation. It
can have four values 1-4 with 1 being small (default) and 4 being Maximum.
If it's set to 4 right click on the value name, choose modify and type in
a value of 1 or 2.

It's always a good idea to backup the registry when making changes. An
excellent tool for this is ERUNT. See these links:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

[Installing & Using ERUNT]
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

[ERUNT] - Direct download
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe

 

[Bob I]

Says it applies up to Win2000 and can adjust down
On XP YMMV

How NTFS Reserves Space for its Master File Table (MFT)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;174619

I seem to remember in one of the Knowledge Base articles that
NTFSMftZoneReservation can't be decremented once you apply a
higher than normal value to it. Hopefully, you took an XP system
partition image before you changed the value with Diskeeper.

Christian Trummer wrote:

I increased the MFT Reserve in line with the recommendation made by
Diskeeper 9. It is now occupying too much space. Can I reduce it again.
Diskeeper does not allow to set it back.
Thank you for helping me on this.

Open the registry editor: Start | Run | regedit | Ok

Navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

In the right hand pane look for the value name NtfsMftZoneReservation. It
can have four values 1-4 with 1 being small (default) and 4 being Maximum.
If it's set to 4 right click on the value name, choose modify and type in
a value of 1 or 2.

It's always a good idea to backup the registry when making changes. An
excellent tool for this is ERUNT. See these links:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

[Installing & Using ERUNT]
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

[ERUNT] - Direct download
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe

 

[R. McCarty]

Thanks - I'll ad the link to my MS References.

Says it applies up to Win2000 and can adjust down
On XP YMMV

How NTFS Reserves Space for its Master File Table (MFT)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;174619

I seem to remember in one of the Knowledge Base articles that
NTFSMftZoneReservation can't be decremented once you apply a
higher than normal value to it. Hopefully, you took an XP system
partition image before you changed the value with Diskeeper.

Christian Trummer wrote:


I increased the MFT Reserve in line with the recommendation made by
Diskeeper 9. It is now occupying too much space. Can I reduce it again.
Diskeeper does not allow to set it back.
Thank you for helping me on this.

Open the registry editor: Start | Run | regedit | Ok

Navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

In the right hand pane look for the value name NtfsMftZoneReservation. It
can have four values 1-4 with 1 being small (default) and 4 being
Maximum. If it's set to 4 right click on the value name, choose modify
and type in a value of 1 or 2.

It's always a good idea to backup the registry when making changes. An
excellent tool for this is ERUNT. See these links:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

[Installing & Using ERUNT]
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

[ERUNT] - Direct download
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe

 

[Guest]

I increased the MFT Reserve in line with the recommendation made by Diskeeper
9. It is now occupying too much space. Can I reduce it again. Diskeeper does
not allow to set it back.
Thank you for helping me on this.

Open the registry editor: Start | Run | regedit | Ok

Navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

In the right hand pane look for the value name NtfsMftZoneReservation.
It can have four values 1-4 with 1 being small (default) and 4 being
Maximum. If it's set to 4 right click on the value name, choose modify
and type in a value of 1 or 2.

It's always a good idea to backup the registry when making changes. An
excellent tool for this is ERUNT. See these links:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

[Installing & Using ERUNT]
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

[ERUNT] - Direct download
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe

Thank you but nothing seems to change the size downwards anymore.

 

[Guest]

It seems you are right: I was not able to reduce the MFT Reserve that had
been increased by Diskeeper 9.

I seem to remember in one of the Knowledge Base articles that
NTFSMftZoneReservation can't be decremented once you apply a
higher than normal value to it. Hopefully, you took an XP system
partition image before you changed the value with Diskeeper.

I increased the MFT Reserve in line with the recommendation made by
Diskeeper 9. It is now occupying too much space. Can I reduce it again.
Diskeeper does not allow to set it back.
Thank you for helping me on this.

Open the registry editor: Start | Run | regedit | Ok

Navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

In the right hand pane look for the value name NtfsMftZoneReservation. It
can have four values 1-4 with 1 being small (default) and 4 being Maximum.
If it's set to 4 right click on the value name, choose modify and type in
a value of 1 or 2.

It's always a good idea to backup the registry when making changes. An
excellent tool for this is ERUNT. See these links:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

[Installing & Using ERUNT]
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

[ERUNT] - Direct download
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe

 

[Guest]

They cannot be of help. This is quite poor as I used the latest Diskeeper
Version and these people should know that XP increases the reserve
automatically in line with the requirements, but instead suggest a 10fold
increase of the reserve. Once done you cannot undo it anymore. Bye Bye
Diskeeper. I have purchased the O&O Desfragmenter after reading the ratings
of users and experts.