Question:
How to clean up NTFS's MFT?
anonymous
2009-02-23 01:30:10 UTC
Is there any command or small tools that just clear the name of deleted files in MFT ??
Not the entire MFT but just the file that was deleted.

What I found all around is only programs that completely erase and overwrite the data.
That takes to much time and I don't really need that.
It's OK for me if the data still there but not in MFT list.
I just want to clear the MFT so the recovery program won't find it easily.
Five answers:
dknattukal
2009-02-23 01:44:32 UTC
go to http://www.stellarinfo.com/file-eraser.htm .



the file eraser software given in this link can erase selected files.
anonymous
2016-03-15 13:05:36 UTC
NTFS is more reliable file system. Fat32 was what Windows 98 used and is more prone to losing files and crashing. Stick with NTFS and you will be happy. Also, you may want to research how large of a block you want your data to be when you format. Either leave it at automatic or choose the 512 or you will be wasting alot of hard drive space for a few bytes of data.
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2016-04-11 03:44:01 UTC
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I would do NTFS. NTFS may be faster... - smaller RAM footprint as avoids large FAT held in RAM - indexed design more efficient for many files per directory - small file data embedded in dir level, avoids seek to data chain - above factors make fragmentation less onerous than for FATxx - 4k cluster size matches processor's natural paging size ...or slower... - extra overhead of security checks, compression, encryption - small clusters may fragment data cluster chains NTFS may be safer... - transaction rollback cleanly undoes interrupted operations - file-level permissions can protect data against malware etc. - automatically "fixes" failing clusters on the fly (controversial) ...or more at risk... - no interactive file system checker (a la Scandisk) for NTFS - no maintenance OS for NTFS - malware can drill right through NTFS protection, e.g. Witty - transaction rollback does not preserve user data - transaction rollback does not help other causes of corruption - more limited range of maintenance tools - automatically "fixes" failing clusters on the fly (controversial) NTFS may be more space-efficient... - smaller cluster size than FAT32 above 8G - may include data of small files within the directory level - NTFS's bitmap structure is smaller than FAT32's dual FAT - sparse files and compression can reduce data space usage ...or less so... - NTFS has large MFT structure - larger per-file directory metadata space I would use NTFS where: Users have professional-grade IT admin, including backup Users need to hide data more than they need to salvage it Applications require files over 4G in size Hard drive exceeds the 137G barrier But while NTFS has no maintenance OS from which... Data can easily be recovered File system structure can be manually checked and repaired Malware can be scanned for and cleaned
?
2016-12-12 16:54:50 UTC
Mft Cleaner
anonymous
2009-02-23 02:23:17 UTC
You can use Internet Cleanup 1.4 or Disk CleanUp 2000 5.2 to do it.



Hope can help you



Ghoul


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