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Re: The Best Free Antivirus Program?

said by jmorlan:

dantz , I think your analysis of these mysterious NTFS identifiers is correct. Here is a link that explains about NTFS "object identifiers" and how they work. Essentially an attribute is added to each file which uniquely identifies it.

»msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/librar···997.aspx

Here is code which will delete object identifiers:

»msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/librar···559.aspx

What we need is a simple program that will run that last routine on every file on disk and I think we will have the problem solved.

There are a number of utilities that can defrag metadata. I have at least two and they both report that my metadata is not fragmented at all. Yet I still have the CHKDSK issue. If it were just a matter of defragging metadata, I think it would be a minor issue with an easy fix.

I believe this issue is different.

We probably should move this discussion over to the new thread.

I'm not particularly concerned about the fragmentation itself; I'm just using that as a marker to show me which areas are active during a scan, and thus a likely location of the NTFS identifiers. But yes, I'll switch to the other thread.