Alright I feel abit foolish, so basically I'll ask simply how do you increase your MFT file? I thought the MFT was your page file, but diskeeper keeps telling me to increase the MFT in volume (since it keeps saying that 99% of my MFT file is being used so defragmentation of it is likely, however I have controled my start up programs and only usually use about 20% of the page file). My page file is just over a gig in size, since I know its best to take the amount of ram and double it for your page file. So as foolish as I feel not knowing this one any help on the subject? Doug Windows Xp Home Celeron 2.8 Ghz 768mb Ram Geforce 5700LE PCI Card 128MB 128 bit

>> since I know its best to take the amount of ram and double it for your page file. << Not necessarily so. It is best to let Windows XP manage the page file itself unless you have some unusual requirements. Windows starts of with 1.5 times RAM and adjusts is as necessary. With 768 Mbs of RAM, it probably adjusts it downward. Fixed size page files, while beneficial in Windows 95, slightly less beneficial in Windows 98, is completely unnecessary in Windows XP. Stuart

the NTFS master file table [mft] has no relationship to the system pagefile. The master file table contains all of your folder and file entries. Its what knows where everything is on your disk. I have noted the issue in XP brand new installs that the MTF appears smaller than I would expect whereas some installations have what I would consider a expected size for MFT. Having not looked deeper into the issue the only possible solution I can think of is a complete reformat of the partition with something like Partition Magic and not xp install.

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