How to put [Folder Entry] close to MFT (Master File Table)?

Defraggler
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I respect your caution.

On Windows 7 Ultimate I took initially no risks whilst I struggled with all the differences between it and XP.

I am now more confident with Win 7 but have not been aggravated my any problems with "?:\system volume information".

This may be because I have disabled all volume monitoring (or whatever Win 7 calls it) and all drives.

Therefore I have not taken action against them and there is one instance (with "no access") on each of my partitions.

Although Windows Explorer reports "?:\system volume information is not accessible" when I try to open any of them,

Treesize Free shows me that "C:\system volume information\Syscache.hve" is 3.25 MB (3,407,872 bytes) and was Accessed ‎02 ‎December ‎2012, ‏‎22:31:06

and can also show me 4 other files and 3 further sub-folders and files,

including "C:\system volume information\ChkDdsk\Chkdsk20110808110721.log"

I would not dream of tampering with "C:\system volume information\"

I do not remember seeing anything like "C:\system volume information\Syscache.hve" on XP,

and the Chkdsk*.log files were not held there either.

I spent several years with "?:\system volume information\" exterminated on XP and never had grief.

Windows 7 and possibly Vista seems to have a few other odd things they put there

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are we to assume that e is not your systemdrive or that it is

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C:\ is the System drive on both my Windows 7 Desktop and my XP + SP3 Laptop,

and in each case I used E:\ for files downloaded from the Internet and for Partition image backups.

I have assumed that Goddess01 also has C:\ as her system drive,

and that E:\ was a different drive used for archives.

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Correct Alan_B:

C:\ is my system drive, and

E:\ was a different drive and used for archives.

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Hello Keatah, with UD4, win XP, NTSF disk I noticed a file:

E:\.::$SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR

It appears to be an unmovable.

It prevents proper defragmentation of the disk.

Help.

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@goddess01

Please do not post the contents of private messages from members trying to give you additional help via that route.

This is extremely disrespectful to the member concerned. A private message is just that ... private.

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Guys this is an official forum please do not discuss the use of competing products, unless prompted to do so by a moderator

Thank you see dennis' note in the post above :)