Scan and Index a large MFT

[Eastcoast]

Got a 8TB Seagate in - obviously been suffering for a long time with the number of FOUND folders.

Question is, NTFS MFT is 14GB in size. Managed to get a good read, but now waiting an age for it to scan and index. Over 15million file entries.

Is there a quicker way? 5 hours in, it's 70% scanned in DE.

Have powered the drive down in the meantime, so running it in DATA copy mode.

If I known it would take so long I should have started the task on an SSD and then moved it to a drive.

[Arch Stanton]

I suppose it finished by now

[Lardman]

Is there a quicker way? 5 hours in, it's 70% scanned in DE.

Did you check task manager to see where the load was ? I can't say I've noticed excessive delays but then I don't work from a single spinner and the machine is maxed on ram.

[Eastcoast]

I suppose it finished by now

Took 30 hours. Might be time to increase RAM. I thought 16GB was enough

[Eastcoast]

Is there a quicker way? 5 hours in, it's 70% scanned in DE.

Did you check task manager to see where the load was ? I can't say I've noticed excessive delays but then I don't work from a single spinner and the machine is maxed on ram.

Yes, I did find a Ram hog from an old program that I no longer use running a search service that was frequently up to 6GB. I've since uninstalled it and I think it should help things.

Run main system of NVME drive but the job task was on a regular HDD, so it may be bottlenecking. Might be time to swap out some of my older drives to be fair.