Security News > 2021 > February > Microsoft fixes Windows 10 drive corruption bug — what you need to know
Microsoft has fixed a Windows 10 bug that could cause NTFS volumes to become corrupted by merely accessing a particular path or viewing a specially crafted file.
Windows then prompts the user to reboot the computer and run chkdsk to fix the corruption.
Microsoft has said that the drive is not actually corrupted and Windows chkdsk will fix the problem.
With this week's release of Windows 10 Insider build 21322, Microsoft has included an undocumented fix that prevents the path from being accessed.
This fix has only landed in the Windows 10 Insider 'Dev' channel and not the Windows 10 21H1 'Beta' preview, the next feature update to be released this spring.
Unless Microsoft uplifts this fix to a Windows version being released sooner, we will likely be stuck with this bug for some time.
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