From: "Geo" 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:4224a91e$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> The MFT is the core component of the NTFS file system. Through the MFT the
> NTFS file system becomes a highly organized array of records containing
> information describing the content of your file system. Every instance of
> data on your hard disk is described within these records, from the boot
> sector to your plain text file.

Yeah well they are almost right, if you create a million 1k files then the
MFT contains the data as well .

Thanks for the other info, that was a nice concise description of them all.
All I wanted to do was look inside one or two to see what was there.

Geo.

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