MFT size problem SATA drive

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I've just fitted a 250Gb SATA drive to my XP Home PC. I've already got
1 SATA drive fitted BTW which causes me no problems. This drive
however is causing me major problems with the MFT size? I've split the
drive into 3 partitions, formatted each one and they all look fine.
Executive diskkeeper tells me that with the drive newly formatted
there is a 32Kb MFT which seems very small for this size of drive?
Once I start copying to the drive, the MFT grows as expected but
immediately fragments which I'm told is not good? How can I force a
larger MFT when I format the drive?

TIA


cheers,
Len
 
Len Cuff said:
I've just fitted a 250Gb SATA drive to my XP Home PC. I've already got
1 SATA drive fitted BTW which causes me no problems. This drive
however is causing me major problems with the MFT size? I've split the
drive into 3 partitions, formatted each one and they all look fine.
Executive diskkeeper tells me that with the drive newly formatted
there is a 32Kb MFT which seems very small for this size of drive?
Once I start copying to the drive, the MFT grows as expected but
immediately fragments which I'm told is not good? How can I force a
larger MFT when I format the drive?
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The last time I used diskkeeper, it had the option for increasing the size
of the mft...
you can use it if you want...however windows seems to handle it ok so I
doubt you have a problem
 
Does not Diskeeper give you the option to attend to the "problem" that only
IT seems to find?

I seem to remember that it does.

BTW: Other defragmenters (PerfectDisk and built in defragger) don't find any
problem with the same partition on the same drive - so, is it really a
problem?

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Does not Diskeeper give you the option to attend to the "problem" that only
IT seems to find?

I seem to remember that it does.

BTW: Other defragmenters (PerfectDisk and built in defragger) don't find any
problem with the same partition on the same drive - so, is it really a
problem?
Click to expand...

I'm beginning to think that it wasn't a problem after all! Shortly
after posting this, the first partition on the new drive started
throwing all sorts of errors. Other 2 partitions were fine. Tried
deleting and reformatting and looks like the drive has gone bad at the
start. RMA now gone in for replacement.

Thanks for the help.

cheers,
Len
 
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