Quick overview:
The first file on a hard disk that works with the NTFS file system is the MFT (Master File Table). It contains all the information about all the files and folders on the disk: file size, file creation and last modification dates, shares, content and file type. Unfortunately, the size of this important system file is limited, which slows down access to the files and folders, as the older information has to be deleted again and again and then re-entered later - which understandably costs computing time. This is equivalent to hard disk fragmentation. So if you have a lot of files on your computer, I recommend enlarging the MFT. Unfortunately, this trick does not work on FAT hard disks, as it would be pointless here due to the different system.
1. Click one after the other on Start/Execute and type it into the command line regedit in.
2. After confirming with Enter, you will find yourself in the editor for the Windows registry database. Double-click to navigate through the keys one after the other HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ Control\FileSystem.
3. You can already see some entries in the right-hand pane. Now click on a free area here and select New > DWORD value. Now call this NtfsMftZoneReservation. Now double-click on NtfsMftZoneReservation and enter a number for the desired setting in the pop-up window:
1 = 12.5 % of free hard disk space (default - already set)
2 = 25 % of free hard disk space
Values 3 and 4 are still possible. However, these do not make much sense, as they would have to have millions of files to fill the MFT.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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