Re: What is the MFT?

RScotti <rscotti1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
My system is all screwed up and when I ran CHKDSK /f it didn't fix these errors.
When I ran just CHKDSK (read only) I got this:
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

235456640 KB total disk space.
13970484 KB in 60033 files.
20868 KB in 5640 indexes.
4 KB in bad sectors.
139864 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
221325420 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
58864160 total allocation units on disk.
55331355 allocation units available on disk.
What is this telling me? Is this part of the MBR?

MFT = Master File Table. This is the primary, absolutely indispensable
structure in the NTFS file system. The first part of all files is
stored there, and smaller files are entirely stored there. It is *not*
part of the Master Boot Record(MBR), which is at the very beginning
of the physical drive, and is not part of any partition.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx
.

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