File locator NTFS

[revver]

I want to find out where on my HDD a certain file lives.  i.e. Where does it start and end?

Can anyone suggest a program which will look into the file system and show/tell me where it is? I would like to know which clusters it uses or which cylinder(s) etc. it occupies. This file is producing errors in the event log.

Thanks
Len

[Compton]

[revver]

Thanks but that isn't my problem. My C: drive is 30% full, 70% free.
I am not looking to make space available. I use Tree Size Free for that.
I want to find where on the physical spinning HDD a given file is living.

There is a particular file which regularly creates warnings in the event log: ID 508 which says -
  ESENT Event 508 A Request to write to the file .... bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time
so, to save time,  I want to run Spinrite on just the area where the file is rather than on the entire platter.

The file is in ...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache

If this was a FAT system, I could look at the directory entry to find out but I am not familiar enough with NTFS.

Len

[GuiltySpark]

You could try some of the answers given here : https://superuser.com/questions/97823/how-do-i-determine-what-file-occupies-a-given-sector

however, I'm not entirely sure if this is what you're looking for as it sounds like you are trying to physically see which sector a file belongs too and I don't know of a way of doing this as most files tend to be fragmented (a piece here, a piece there).
Someone else may know of some software which achieves what you require but I haven't used any.

Are those files not in the web cache path you posted?

[revver]

(07-17-2018, 08:18 AM)GuiltySpark Wrote:  it sounds like you are trying to physically see which sector a file belongs too and I don't know of a way of doing this as most files tend to be fragmented (a piece here, a piece there).

I want to find out which sector contains the beginning of the file even though it is fragmented (21 fragments). That way I can run Spinrite starting at/before that sector. Spinrite takes 60 hours to do all of C: at level 4. Given that only 30% of the drive is in use, I figure 6 or 8 hours overnight should be enough to correct the entire file if I start near the actual beginning of the file regardless of any defragmentation.

If I still get 508 errors I can always treat the entire drive.

Len
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