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Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file's icon
- t0mas88 6y agoVery interesting that a read operation manages to corrupt the index. That makes it likely that it causes an overflow or similar memory corruption in an unfortunate place while reading. For example allocating a buffer based on the literal length of that path and then later expanding the variable?
- uncledave 6y agoI’m not sure it actually does corrupt anything. I just spent an hour on this and it never manifests itself as any actions performed via chkdsk. I think it might just trigger a mandatory consistency check.
- replwoacause 6y agoBased on what the commenters on this article are saying, this bug doesn't actually corrupt the hard drive.