RE: How to relate physical disk block/segment to file name
- From: Andrew E. <eckrichco@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:28:01 -0700
Actually i used a utility that also,graphically displayed what parts of the OS
xp used(s),nt,98,95,etc...The download was from http://www.downloads.com
via techtv.com Probably 2 yrs ago..downloads.com has a ton of those
utilitys,
you might chk on the company(s) before you give it access to youre os
first,but
the majority of them are ok...
"Frank D. Nicodem, Jr." 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?
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> Frank D. Nicodem, Jr.
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