Something went weird after NTFS format
This is a discussion about Something went weird after NTFS format in the Everything New Technology category; Hi all, Yesterday I formatted my non-system partition, D, in Win2K Command Prompt with this command: format d: /fs:ntfs Formatting went smoothly. Immediately after the format, I checked drive D's properties and was shocked to discover 51 megs of space have been taken up! 8) How could that be? Drive D was empty afte ...
Hi all,
Yesterday I formatted my non-system partition, D, in Win2K Command Prompt with this command:
format d: /fs:ntfs
Formatting went smoothly. Immediately after the format, I checked drive D's properties and was shocked to discover 51 megs of space have been taken up! 8)
How could that be? Drive D was empty after formatting, no Recycle Bin, no System Volume Information, nothing. (yes, I set Explorer to show all hidden & system files)
D partition is about 10 gigs in size and is healthy with NO bad sectors.
Is this normal behaviour? Thanks for your help.
Yesterday I formatted my non-system partition, D, in Win2K Command Prompt with this command:
format d: /fs:ntfs
Formatting went smoothly. Immediately after the format, I checked drive D's properties and was shocked to discover 51 megs of space have been taken up! 8)
How could that be? Drive D was empty after formatting, no Recycle Bin, no System Volume Information, nothing. (yes, I set Explorer to show all hidden & system files)
D partition is about 10 gigs in size and is healthy with NO bad sectors.
Is this normal behaviour? Thanks for your help.
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Big thanks for the quick reply.
Yeah, I'm mighty glad to finally make the switch to ntfs; it's been LONG due, I delayed and delayed for months, years lol. Now playing around with the File & Folder Permissions-it's cool!
Anyhow, do you have happen to know of any MS tech documents that explains why MFT can be so ugly big on NTFS partitions? I searched and searched.....found nothing of relevance
Yeah, I'm mighty glad to finally make the switch to ntfs; it's been LONG due, I delayed and delayed for months, years lol. Now playing around with the File & Folder Permissions-it's cool!
Anyhow, do you have happen to know of any MS tech documents that explains why MFT can be so ugly big on NTFS partitions? I searched and searched.....found nothing of relevance
the MFT can be 8% or more of the total space 50 MB is nothing. dont worry about it.
The zero byte thing is no theory either, for giggles i made a 100 MB ntfs prtition and filled it up that way. it as fun.
One lousy command line can make the billions of 0 byte size files.............
The zero byte thing is no theory either, for giggles i made a 100 MB ntfs prtition and filled it up that way. it as fun.
One lousy command line can make the billions of 0 byte size files.............
Quote:Big thanks for the quick reply.
Yeah, I'm mighty glad to finally make the switch to ntfs; it's been LONG due, I delayed and delayed for months, years lol. Now playing around with the File & Folder Permissions-it's cool!
Anyhow, do you have happen to know of any MS tech documents that explains why MFT can be so ugly big on NTFS partitions? I searched and searched.....found nothing of relevance
I think this will help explain some of the basics of the MFT
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;174619
I would goto Microsoft's KB and select - All Microsoft Products - and then just use the keyword mft.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto
Yeah, I'm mighty glad to finally make the switch to ntfs; it's been LONG due, I delayed and delayed for months, years lol. Now playing around with the File & Folder Permissions-it's cool!
Anyhow, do you have happen to know of any MS tech documents that explains why MFT can be so ugly big on NTFS partitions? I searched and searched.....found nothing of relevance
I think this will help explain some of the basics of the MFT
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;174619
I would goto Microsoft's KB and select - All Microsoft Products - and then just use the keyword mft.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto
OP
Thanks to everyone who has been helpful.
@jmmijo - that article is excellent, it explains the "weirdness", my gratitude to you.
I need to spend some time brushing up my search skills too....
@jmmijo - that article is excellent, it explains the "weirdness", my gratitude to you.
I need to spend some time brushing up my search skills too....
Quote:Thanks to everyone who has been helpful.
@jmmijo - that article is excellent, it explains the "weirdness", my gratitude to you.
I need to spend some time brushing up my search skills too....
You're welcome my young padawan, now search will you hmmmmmm
@jmmijo - that article is excellent, it explains the "weirdness", my gratitude to you.
I need to spend some time brushing up my search skills too....
You're welcome my young padawan, now search will you hmmmmmm
