About a month and a half ago, we reported a serious flaw in Windows 10 that could be exploited to corrupt the contents of an NTFS drive. With Microsoft’s delay in responding, it was up to OSR security researchers to produce a third-party patch.
But now Microsoft has taken responsibility and has finally come up with an official solution to the failure. Unfortunately, not everything is good news, as the fix is not available to everyone.
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Although the company has not announced the fact, it appears that the newly released Windows 10 build 21322 corrects the drive’s corruption flaw. The bug exists due to a problem with the NTFS $ i30 attribute, which means that accessing the path c: : $ i30: $ bitmap will cause drive corruption – although this must be reversible using the chkdsk tool.
As Bleeping Computer reports, if you try to access this problematic path in build 21322, you will see a message that says: “The directory name is invalid”.
The bad news here is that Windows 10 build 21322 was only made available to Insiders on the Dev channel. It is hard to say whether Microsoft will release a separate patch for previous builds of the operating system or if we will have to wait for this development build to progress to the main launch channel.
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