Re: NTFS question - max number of files on root of C:?
- From: John John <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:55:05 -0300
You can put 4,294,967,295 on an NTFS volume and technically you can stuff them all in the root folder if you wanted. There is however instances where having a "large" number of files in the root folder leads to MFT fragmentation that could lead to an "NTLDR is missing" error message when you boot the computer so it is not a good idea to store too many files in the root folder. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320397/ According to that article the problem was resolved with SP4.
The 2,048 files and the fact that it is a multiple of 512 is a coincidence only. Did you get the computer to boot after you moved the files? A blinking cursor only at boot time usually means that there is no active partition or that the active flag was removed (the wrong partition is active).
John
keith w wrote:
I always thought that NTFS did away with limitations on the number of files you can have in the root directory. Today I had a user that couldn't boot up to Win2K, the box just sits there with a blinking cursor before the normal splash screen has a chance to come up, and I figured the hard drive might have gotten hosed, so I mounted the drive as a slave (E:) in another computer to see if I could recover any data. When I went to the root of E: there were exactly 2,048 files there, mostly .csv and .txt files from data downloads from the past 3 or 4 years, in addition to the normal system files and app logs. Apparently somebody told this person that this is where she should put all of her data files. These were all one-off files that weren't needed anymore so I was able to blow them out and remount the drive as the master and Win2K boots normally again. The number 2,048 is an exact multiple of 4 times the 512 limit in FAT... no way this could just be a coincidence! I Googled this but couldn't find anything that points to a 2,048 file limit on NTFS. Not that this is a big deal or anything that we're likely to see again, but now I"m really curious..
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