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  1. It would be great to move files to desired locations on the disk. So if I have a file (or number of files) that I want to increase I/O performance on, I could move them to the outer tracks of the drive because it spins faster than the inside.

     

    I realize this is a tall order, but I really think it would make Defraggler stand much further out from the competition.

    This is a great idea, I think I suggested it myself -

     

    I take a somewhat dim view of other suggestions as defraggler speed and simplicity are worth preserving.

    In particular I do not want background monitoring. That keeps my USB external drive from inactivity power down, i.e. monitoring keeps it awake. I have found that defrags that appear to let you disable monitoring still keep drive awake.

  2. - Add an option to move all System Restore files to the end of the disk

     

    Yes! Or even better: when you select any file by checking its box in the file list, have an option to move it to the end of the disk.

     

    Defraggler is wonderfully useful for checking the status of drive. But when I see one file in the middle of a free area, I so wish I could move just that file, not just defrag it (it might not be fragmented).

  3. Thank you, you may have solved my problem. Not a big problem but it has been annoying me.

     

    The MFT Zone is a large area which is supposed to be continuous with MFT so that MFT can expand into it without fragmenting. However on my drive the Zone is near the end of the partition, nowhere near either the MFT or the MFT-2 copy, as you can see.

    Mft starts at 7278a (=468,874), so-called Zone starts at 9aac60(=10,136,672).

     

    C:\>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:

    NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x2c400d41400d12ee

    Version : 3.1

    Number Sectors : 0x0000000005dbf6e0

    Total Clusters : 0x0000000000bb7edc

    Free Clusters : 0x000000000047ddb7

    Total Reserved : 0x0000000000000500

    Bytes Per Sector : 512

    Bytes Per Cluster : 4096

    Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024

    Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0

    Mft Valid Data Length : 0x000000000a4ec000

    Mft Start Lcn : 0x000000000007278a

    Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x00000000002150bb

    Mft Zone Start : 0x00000000009aac60

    Mft Zone End : 0x0000000000b17780

    I've done the usual Registry machinations but nothing changes that misplaced zone. And anyway, I wouldn't want a gigantic dead zone in the fastest part of the drive.

     

    Defragmenters all move the MFT and other system files to the fastest part of the drive, and leave a small pad after the MFT. That pad is the actual MFT 'zone' that NTFS uses. So I have really wanted to get rid of the useless Zone at the end of the partition - although it doesn't really decrease the available disk space, according to Microsoft.

     

    You seem to have hit on a way I can accomplish this. :).

    I am going to try wiping free space. I'm hoping it will cause NTFS to reconstitute a smaller Zone in the right place. Thanks, I never would have thought of it and I believe it should work. (Can't do it right now, PC is too busy).

     

    In the picture, the $ files, including $mft, are in the first 5 (red) squares. The MFT Zone is all that purple at the end.

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