ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted March 5, 2007 Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 I have, for many years, had one partition completely reserved for my Outlook Personal Folders File. The partition is NTFS, formatted with 64KB cluster size, and the PST file has never fragmented over the years.And now suddenly it has become fragmented, and whatever I do, it will no longer defragment. Have a look at this image from Diskeeper.You see that in the middle of the partition there are suddenly some "system files" and "reserved system space". What the hell are these...?So I did a backup of the PST file, deleted it, and reformatted the partition. Checked with Windows Explorer; it shows a greyed-out folder named 'System Volume Information' and a size of 0 bytes. Good!Or so I thought... Looking at the partition with Diskeeper, it shows the above picture. In the middle of the partition is again that system crap! When I restore the PST file, it naturally falls into fragments around these system items Any idea what that is, and/or how I can get rid of it? The partition is just a logical data partition, and should not in my opinion contain any system files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozofdeath Posted March 5, 2007 Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Metadata files? I haven't used disk keeper but is there a log to show which files could not be defragged? If you want more info on metadata here is a good site. Its interesting.http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/archFiles-c.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted March 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Good suggestion! Diskeeper can actually defragment the MFT, but I don't know where it places it.I have contacted Diskeeper support to ask for advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Metadata files? I haven't used disk keeper but is there a log to show which files could not be defragged? If you want more info on metadata here is a good site. Its interesting.http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/archFiles-c.htmlThe metadata was of interest to me in relation to a thread I posted about Windows delayed write failure and problems with an internal hard drive.The pop up error messages I kept getting all referred to file names prefixed with a dollar sign which are listed in this article.Kinda confirms my hard disk was misbehaving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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