That's right.
But I think it is only a question of time till this website will go offline.
Seems, that Jeroen has no interest left in MyDefrag. Sadly.

But wouldn't this mean that the whole forum software must be customized to do that obfuscating?

But you are then shrinking the usable disk space.
I think in this case it is much more efficient to buy an SSD. :/

Hi,

Q: Why is the MFT not placed at the very beginning of the volume?
A: The position of 30% into the disk is the most accessed area on the disk, because of the zone structure. The boot files are on the very beginning, then we have the most important files for the system.

Q: Directories are placed directly after the MFT. Basically my question is - what's their role on an NTFS voulume?
A: A directory is basically a file which holds the list of files that the directory holds, with crossreferences to the MFT. You will have performance impact when you place the directorys very far away to the files that are contained in it, so the head must move more far. In praxis, the most impact will be while open a directory with a huge number of pictures in it.

Q: Boot files and System files. Are they more important regarding performance than MFT or directories respectively?
A: This answer is capsuled in the other two answers.

And the point with the zones, I currently don't really get what you mean...

I think - and that is very logic - that Windows writes new files at the position where the head resides at the moment or near in this position to avoid much movements while writing, accelerating the write process.

Possibly your data disk drive was in idle mode, parking the heads. And the nearest position is the beginning of the partition so Windows did what you intended in this case.

The beginning of the disk is at the outside of the disk on HDDs, like on vinyls.

The two fragmens of hte MFT are they nearly aqually of size or is the first fragment very small?

If it is very small, Windows can not move the complete MFT, the header is fixed, only the MFT data is movable.

A BSOD? Then something is wrong with your system. I have never seen a BSOD since I have my notebooks.

It's like Chrome or Firefox release cycle.

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MyDefrag requires administrator privileges, or a user which have the privilege to directly access a volume.

I would simply use the system disk monthly, than daily the daily script and weekly the weekly script. I recommend it to you. It should do it for you and keep it as good performance. Just try it. If you're not satisfied, we will see what we can do for you.

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First hit.

You could try the program "Unlocker". Google is your friend.
It can unlock opened files. A great tool.

But I don't know what might happen when you pull the process which has the file open the rug under the feet away.

You can AFAIK delete this file, the file will be created after next boot.
If you are lucky, the file is created more to the beginning of the drive.

I couldn't find more than 3 nested directories (Win7). 

Under C:\Windows no directory is nested more than 12 levels (the deepest being and SysWOW64 and System32). That's not much.

12 levels is about 33% of the 35 levels. I think the memory consumption should be somewhat 25% of that what memory was uses with 35 levels. But it isn't.

What? If it's so, then how does MyDefrag handle the WinSxS-Directory on Windows 7 and Vista? Here we also have huge nesting.