Re: Reserved MFT space on hard disk

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No I do not believe that you can. This is by default on hard drives that are
larger than 120gig. Maybe someone knows better and can correct me.

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Peter

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"max" <ddouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm installing a new 200gb hard disk drive for file storage,
> and intend formatting NTFS.
> My problem is with the reserved MFT on hdd of 12.5%
> Which equates to about 25gb of reserved space on my hdd.
>
> Is there anyway i can decrease this ?
> I'd like it to be 1% ?
>
>
> max


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