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Author:  Eastcoast [ August 9th, 2023, 10:51 ]
Post subject:  Scan and Index a large MFT
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. :-)
Author:  Arch Stanton [ August 10th, 2023, 17:23 ]
Post subject:  Re: Scan and Index a large MFT
I suppose it finished by now ;)
Author:  Lardman [ August 11th, 2023, 4:13 ]
Post subject:  Re: Scan and Index a large MFT
Eastcoast wrote:
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.
Author:  Eastcoast [ August 11th, 2023, 8:01 ]
Post subject:  Re: Scan and Index a large MFT
Arch Stanton wrote:
I suppose it finished by now ;)


Took 30 hours. Might be time to increase RAM. I thought 16GB was enough :-)
Author:  Eastcoast [ August 11th, 2023, 8:06 ]
Post subject:  Re: Scan and Index a large MFT
Lardman wrote:
Eastcoast wrote:
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.
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