Allocated memory to MFT Bitmap

[keithy397]

How do I get rid of it?

It all started after taking bad advice late at night and running a crappy performance enhancement tool (yeah, yeah I know now!) and I discovered I'd inherited 33% more system files in the defrag display. Anyway, I discovered the tool had bumped my paging file size to 1738mb. I changed the setting back to one and a half of RAM and rebooted but the bogus sys files remained.

Whilst all other readings confirmed the space was free the defrag still showed it as system files therefore making defragging difficult and a lot longer.

I now run chkdsk and I discover that the displayed 'sys files' are in fact an allocation of memory to the MFT Bitmap. Great, I now know the exact cause of the problem but I've no idea what it means or how to remedy the problem!

I would appreciate help in getting rid of this problem.

*Edit* I've since found this article so it appears I need a third party defragger to reclaim memory from MFT, any ideas please?

Edited October 9, 2005 by keithy397