system files in 2k - HELP!

mrtj

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win2k wastes over a gig on my 18 gig scsi HD. when i format the drive it says there is16.8 gig out of 16.9 left, but when i look at the drive under defrag, there is a big green block at the start - system files. the problem is when i add files to the drive, the system files suddenly take space so that when i delete all my files there is still only 15.6 gig left.

i have seven partitions and this happens in all but the two fat 32 partitions (the others are ntfs) and the one win 2k is on.

it is a waste of space and when i capture i want it to capture to the start of the drive which i think is the fastest part not after the sys files.

how do i stop win2k doing this?
 
i do believe you cant. its called the MFT (master file table i think) it helps in making NTFS more efficient.

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