Winapp2.ini Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I was able to run a compact mft with Total Defrag trial version. FWIW, I tried it on all of my drives, and the results were slim on most of them, except my system drive, where it trimmed the $MFT file from 460.75MB to 156.25MB. My assumption is that this is because there was a larger difference between deleted and actual files on my system drive than on my storage drives, which for the most part I don't delete much on. winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted April 14, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 14, 2013 @winapp2, so you have noticed marginal speed benefit and minimal space gain? how long did the process take? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted April 14, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 14, 2013 Indeed I too have loaded a trial of Total Defrag and run it against a 100mb partition. The (small) MFT had no spare records to start with, so I loaded a modest folder with 50 or so files, then another, and then deleted the first, leaving a space of 50 deleted records in the centre of the MFT. I then ran TD Compact/no truncate and using WinHex and Recuva I could see that the MFT had been compacted, and with no restart required. I will dig a little deeper later. I know that you (being an application) can't modify the MFT. Edit it with a hex editor and a minute later the changes are backed out by NTFS. Having only 170 records the process took only a few minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Keatah Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 If it can lock the volume, e.g. External USB, then it will process right away. C:\ requires reboot. On an older Dothan Core 1.7GHz machine, I noticed a faster Start menu response. The icons and sub-folds there populated noticeably quicker. For a little more performance I used that Disktrix Ultimate Defrag to bring all the $Metafiles close together. Synergystically these two work well together. I was able to knock 4 seconds off of loading Orbiter Spaceflight Simulator. About 3-5 seconds off Photoshop CS2. A modern i7 hexcore and similar would bury any latency with a sledgehammer I'd fathom.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 @winapp2, so you have noticed marginal speed benefit and minimal space gain? how long did the process take? I haven't except for one place*, but that's presumably because my system drive is solid state. I left the room to grab a drink while it restarted and did its thing, and by the time I got back it was finished. * After trimming the $MFT files across my drives, the program "Search Everything" appears to populate a bit more quickly. winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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