[Scgeeks] Re: System Files Growing on External USP HD

[Canopus]

Kenneth Brody scribed:

>Canopus wrote:
>>
>>Win XP Pro SP2.
>>
>>I've Googled often for this and find no answers.  Have installed USB HD
>>formatted in NTFS and transfered my music files to it.  Whenever I run
>>Disk Keeper Light to defrag it I see a large number of Systems Files
>>(Highlighted green) taking up almost the same space as my music files.  I
>>have PC set to show Systems Files and see such things as ini files,
>>thumbs.db, some jpg files generated by WMP etc., but, all these System
>>Files I see should only be a very small percentage of the total file size
>>on the HD.  So why are all these other System Files being reported by Disk
>>Keeper, what are they and what can one do about them?  I'm also seeing
>>this on other drives other than my OS partition, but, not to the extent on
>>my External HD.
>
>Any chance these are the recycle bin, or something similar?

Don't think so, believe we tracked it down.  It's a combination of the MFT 
records and Diskeeper Light misreporting.  Diskeeper Light is quite an old 
build and when I installed Diskeeper 2008 as a trial all those supposed 
System Files disappeared.

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Rob

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