fsutil command

With the fsutil command in Windows 7 you can find the size of the master file table and get other information.

Open the command prompt in admin mode (just type cmd at start then press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER). The command is

fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:

. . . as you can see from this screen grab, you gets lot of information, including the bytes per sector and per cluster. Some of the values are given in hexadecimal. You can convert these values using the methods detailed in the tips for the past two nights, August 20 and August 21, 2017. The hexadecimal 5140000 for the 'Mft Valid Data Length' converts to a decimal value of 85196800. This is the number of bytes in Master File Table. There are 1,000,000 bytes in a full MB. So 85196800 comes to 85.2 MB.

Windows Command Del

The Windows command del can be used to run a wildcard search to delete any files in a directory containing a particular string.

So you if you have a folder like this one, and you want to delete the files beginning 'Best':

. . .right click in the folder, pressing CTRL + SHIFT, and select 'Open Command Window Here'. Enter the command del followed by a wildcard search using an asterisk.

. . . Windows will then delete all files beginning with 'Best'.

fsutil command

In Windows, if you open the command prompt in admin mode (just type cmd at start then press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER on cmd.exe) and type the following command:

fsutil fsinfo drives

. . . you will get a list of the drives connected to your PC.