From: "Robert Comer" 

> A) WTF? i.e. what does this mean & what happens when MFT usage gets to
> 100%?

Ask Geo, it's one of his pet peeves. 

> B) What can I do about it? Is there a "repack the MFT"
option somewhere in
> Windows?

Nope, you need a third part app to do it.  Or since it's not the system
partition, backup/format/restore will do wonders.

--
Bob Comer





"Adam"  wrote in message
news:44b7ae95{at}w3.nls.net...
> Dear All,
>
> My laptop is used to do lots of build many times per day. It has started
> being somewhat flakey e.g. deleting a file takes ages if done through
> explorer.....
>
> So I thought ...time for a defrag so I d/l'ed diskkeeper & ran it....
>
> It gave me a health warning :
>
> Health
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Warning!
>
>     The overall health of volume D: is degraded
>
>     The overall health is at "Warning" level for the following
>     reasons:
>
>     1. The MFT usage is currently 92 percent of the total MFT
>     size, which indicates it is likely the MFT will become
>     fragmented.
>
>
> A) WTF? i.e. what does this mean & what happens when MFT usage gets to
> 100%?
>
> B) What can I do about it? Is there a "repack the MFT"
option somewhere in
> Windows?
>
>
> Adam

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