Well MyDefrag is perfectly able to move the $mft on Windows XP(sp2), see FastOptimize.MyD for an example.

If you want to move the $mft(and hopefully the reserved area) you need to use a SetBeginOfZone() before FileSelect to specify where you want it, but you have to specify any zones that you want to place before, before the $mft zone.

jonib

Thanks for your reply! It was my misbelief. Now I did my first MyD script (after reading some documentation) and I found that the scripting abilities of MyDefrag are great! I managed to get rid of the MFT reserved zone in the beginning of volume. Thumbs up to Jeroen for writing this marvellous piece of software.

As I understand it right, it is not possible to move $MFT through Microsoft defragmenting api when running ntfs on Windows XP.

My situation is the following: I have a 2 TB ntfs volume which contains almost only huge files and the system is optimized for high throughput. However, the files are on the volume in a suboptimal way since the beginning of the disk is the fastest part, see the following image:



As you can see, in the beginning of the volume is the MFT, then directories and after a little free space there is the $logfile. After that the MFT reserved area occupies next 250 GB (!) (12.5 %) of the volume (dark blue) and that area is the fastest area of my volume. This seems ridiculous since the size of my MFT is about 100 MB and the $logfile is ~67 MB. And then, a whopping 250 GB of reserved space for MFT and logfile growth.

So, I am looking for a solution which makes it possible to move the MFT (and the reserved zone) to the middle (or even end) of the volume so that I can take full advantage of the fastest part of my volume. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.