- Optimizing Windows XP Disk Performance
- Fundamentals of Hard Disk Configuration
- Basic and Dynamic Disks
- Getting to Know Dynamic Disks
- Dynamic Disk States
- Configuring Drive Letters and Paths
- Working with Disk V
- Optimizing Windows XP Disk Performance
- Fundamentals of Hard Disk Configuration
- Basic and Dynamic Disks
- Getting to Know Dynamic Disks
- Dynamic Disk States
- Configuring Drive Letters and Paths
- Working with Disk Volumes
- Creating Simple Volumes
- Extending a Simple Volume
- Creating a Spanned Volume
- Creating Striped Volumes
- Speeding Up Hard Disk Performance
- Convert to NTFS
- Reducing NTFS Overhead
- Disable 8.3 Filenames
- Create More Space For the Master File Table
- Disable Date and Time Stamp Updating
- Defragment the Disk
- Check for Disk Errors
- Clean up Unnecessary Files and Optimize the Recycle Bin
- Compression/Encryption and Performance
- Stop Hibernation
- Use DMA Mode on IDE Drives
- Helpful Disk Management and Performance Utilities
Create More Space For the Master File Table
NTFS uses a Master File Table to record data about files. You can add a Registry entry to ensure that the table is large enough and has the space it needs. This will take up more space on the hard disk, but it reduces overall NTFS overhead, which can help general performance.
Follow these steps:
1. Click Start>Run. Type regedit and click OK.
2. In the Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem.
3. Create a REG_DWORD entry and name it NtfsMftZoneReservation.
4. Set the value of the entry to 2.
5. Close the Registry Editor.