Software company Diskeeper Corporation Europe states that it is
vitally important to defragment MFT and paging files.
On an extremely busy server where hundreds of files are being
created every day the Master File Table can become heavily fragmented
and the native Windows defrag tool, despite interoperating with the
file system and APIs, doesn't actually support defragmentation of the
MFT, the Paging File, FAT directories or files open for exclusive use
- for example, Windows registry.
Every file in an NTFS's volume has an entry in NT's Master File
Table. The MFT includes references to all folders and files stored on
the NTFS partitions. MFT is similar to a FAT table in a FAT file
system. When you convert your file system from FAT to NTFS, MFT is
created and placed somewhere in the middle of the partition, not at
the beginning like when you perform a fresh format. This causes slower
access to the MFT and higher fragmentation of other files.
It is therefore important to perform defragmentation on such files
in order to speed up system performance; however it is only safe to do
so using boot-time defragmentation. Most online methods bypass the
defragmentation APIs within NTFS file systems which Microsoft has
provided for safe defragmentation, and can result in loss of data,
data corruption, system crashes or even loss of entire volumes.
A third-party defragmentation tool is undeniably useful to handle
such tasks. Diskeeper 2007 is a new generation defragmentation that
can work with MFT and paging files and uses Microsoft's approved
boot-time method along with FragShield(TM) technology, an exclusive
feature that configures disk allocation to prevent these critical
system areas from becoming fragmented.
Diskeeper 2007 is now officially Windows Vista(TM) certified.
Download a free trial version of Diskeeper 2007 now!
http://www.DiskeeperEurope.com.
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About Diskeeper Corporation--Innovators in Performance and
Reliability Technologies
With over 25 million licences sold, home users to large
corporations rely on Diskeeper(R) software to provide unparalleled
performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers.
Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data
protection and instant file recovery with Undelete(R). A variety of
system management tools, trial ware and free utilities are available
at www.diskeepereurope.com.
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