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Thank you a bunch for your help, I much appreciate it.

Point 1: That was my idea, I want it to be as big as to hold 5 million files (current usage is around 3.5 m files on my current system, with tiny and not so tiny MFT chunks all over the fs). I don't want it to shrink or anything, just grow big enough to cover 5 mil. entries. Point 2: I could delete the names with Restoration. Recuva didn't find any name. I just don't understand how Restoration did it exactly and anyway it did blow half the filesystem up in the process. So I guess you are right, can't be done, at least in a civilized way... Point 3: Diskeeper makes hidden dirs and 0 lenght files for padding the MFT. Pretty harmless, and all that gets delete afterwards. Just names remain in MFT. And yeah, I was looking for a way to skip all those names altogether in Recuva so it won't choke and drop me back to the desktop. I stand corrected and grateful for your precisions ^^ I'll abuse some more of your time with this matter thaugh. What means do I have to force 5 million entries in MFT, without having to create a file for each entry? I am aware that I can change MFT space reservation with fsutil, but as I copy files on the fs MFT grows in fragments all around the disk... Is there a way to make it grow in 1 block without fragmentation?

First I would like to greet everyone on these forums and express my gratitude to the Piriform team for their excellent work Like many users I'm looking to delete those pesky filenames entries from the MFT. I am trying to prepare a pair of hard disks in RAID 0, using Diskeeper to reserve enough MFT records to avoid fragmentation as much as possible. Diskeeper does this by writing files on the filesystem, 1 file for each MFT entry the user has specified. I usually set that to 5 million entries. Everything goes fine, MFT grows as expected in one block, files get deleted and fragmentation is kept to a minimum. But then if I use Recuva it will choke trying to show 5 million entries... Nothing really strange so far... next step is to try to get rid of all those name records in the MFT... I came up with an interesting page people should read before pestering Piriform. Be aware that all the tools discussed in those pages aren't benign, they ALL could/shall convert your hard disk to pure energy without any messing around... not that any of those solutions will actually work... DLS Reports Is this option contemplated for a future release of CCleaner or Recuva?