Large file

[Dave Collins]

The second largest file on my computer running XP is C:\$Secure:$SDS:$DATA  

What is it and more importantly, can I delete it or at least reduce the size somehow.

Dave

[jeroen]

The number in the "Bytes" column is the allocated size, the number in the "Clusters" column is the real size on disk (the size of a cluster is listed in the begin of the report). Perhaps your "C:\$Secure:$SDS:$DATA" doesn't really take up that much space on disk.

It's a Windows file and cannot be deleted. I think it shrinks automatically if you reset the permissions on files and folders to "inherit from parent", but I'm not sure about that.

Which version of JkDefrag are you using? Version 3.24 introduced a change in the report, the "25 largest items on disk" list in the statusreport is now sorted by (used) clusters instead of by (allocated) bytes.

[Dave Collins]

Hi Jeroen,


I'm using (since two days) Version 3.24. of your wonderful JKDefrag software. I'd tried Diskeeper for 30 days but it never cleaned up the disk as well as this.

Here is a part of todays text file

08:25:27 The 25 largest items on disk:
08:25:27   Fragments       Bytes  Clusters Name
08:25:27           1   401924096     98126 C:\pagefile.sys
08:25:27           1   332721756     81231 C:\$Secure:$SDS:$DATA
08:25:27           1    75998579     18540 C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386\driver.cab
08:25:27           4    58785792     14352 C:\$MFT
08:25:27           4    39526400     14348 (null)
08:25:27           1    39534592      9652 C:\$LogFile

It looks quite large....

Dave

[jeroen]

Here is a part of todays text file

I'm surprised to see a "null" item in your list. Can you please run JkDefrag with the "-d 6" option and check the JkDefrag.log file for errors? I think there will be something near the end of the log in the "Constructing long path for" section.

It looks quite large....

Yep.... If you find a trick to make it smaller then please let me know!

[Argon0]

I've just come across this file on my Son's laptop, its taking up over 800MB of space - marked as unmovable by MyDefrag.

The only thing which I have come across which mentions anything about shrinking this is chkdsk /f on windows Server 2003, I tried to get the hotfix, but it doesn't install on XP. Have thought about installing on 2003 and copying the chkdsk.exe to my xp machine....

See this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919241/en-gb

Do you see any way to get this to work on Windows XP?

Regards

Argon0

[Darlis]

Have you actually tried running chkdsk /f? Do the 800MB show up in "KB in use by the system"?
Which Service Pack is installed?