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by smusamashah 918 days ago
I felt like I wrote this comment because I did exactly the same once long time ago. Made directories like 0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 starting from 0 all the way to 9 billion. I was doing it on a Windows XP machine. I don't exactly remember if I completed the process or stopped it midway but in the end I had this structure which windows could never search through in any reasonable time. Only I would know where my files are. After that I tried zipping all that structure and remember taking it like 65MB or something and took many hours. Deleting this whole thing was also very painful. It also grew the size of MFT file significantly.

Never tried this again. And I don't remember availability of USB drives back then.