Re: How to relate physical disk block/segment to file name

On Thu, 5 May 2005 15:49:49 -0400, "Frank D. Nicodem, Jr."
<Mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I am running Windows XP Home Edition, with all of my partitions set to NTFS.
>I'm looking for a way (preferably a graphical tool) to look at the physical
>blocks on my disk (either individually, or on groups), and see what file(s)
>are using those blocks.
>
>Specifically, I'd love to see a graphical representation of my hard drive
>partition layout -- much like what you might see when you analyze/defragment
>a drive/partition. But somehow (probably through color, or some other
>visual mechanism) show groups of blocks that are all within the same file
>fragment. Then, when I either click on that fragment (or maybe even just
>mouse over it), I could see the file that is using those blocks.
>
>An initial response to this might be "Why?!?!?!?" And while I can think of
>several different reasons I'd like to know this information, perhaps the
>main one for me right now is that, when I do go to defragment a drive, I
>often see "system files" taking large amounts of space on a given disk.
>These are typically "unmovable" files -- but I'd like to know WHICH ones.
>There are times when I know of NO "system file" on a particular partition --
>yet the fragmentation map shows 1-2GB of space being taken up by a "system
>file". So how to find out WHAT file?
>
>Does anyone know of an existing utility that can do this? Or have any
>suggestions on where to start looking?
>-------------------------------------------------
>Frank D. Nicodem, Jr.
>Mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
Yes . There's a utility called diskview from sysinternals.com
http://www.sysinternals.com/files/diskview.zip
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