how to reduce MFT allocation size in windows 11

Hi Greg,

The registry entry is set to 1 for MFR zone reservation which as per docs should then take up only 12.5% of the hard disk space.

Not sure why its taking 91 gb of 471gb

If you'd like more advanced help with this than what we have here in this basic Windows forum for end-consumers, you can ask at our sister forums for IT Professionals, Q&A forums here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/answers/index.... ?

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https://www.spiceworks.com/

I hope it helps.

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Hello Rithvik, I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

Here's the best information I find on the how MFT reserves space and discussion on reducing it's size:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/...

https://superuser.com/questions/1742249/what-is...

https://eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=30169

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38528974/ch...

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the detailed results you post back, I will have other suggestions if necessary.

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