I got this message when I came to my PC this morning. I looked around and it apparently is an important folder/file for windows. Is there any way I could fix this without a total reinstall of windows?
I ran chkdsk at first I did chkdsk /p, and it said it found an error then I ran chkdsk /r, and it came up with nothing my PC has been on for nearly 45 minutes now, and nothing has came up about the file
"MFT. Master File Table. A relational database that forms the heart of the NTFS volumestructure that contains data about the files and directories on a volume. On each NTFS are two MFT's." (Translated by me)
ok well, it hasn't happened again in the last 2 hours, so it's safe to assume that it was a one time thing... but if it happens again, would it be wise to backup and reformat?
if you see it more than ones in a period of time then yes I'd back up. run chkdsk to be sure, if it happens a lot then replace the disk.
It seems Windows writes this file when shutting down. I unplugged my E drive and Windows gave errors like "\$MFT cannot be written."
MFT is the master file table, where it stores the locations for all the files and directories on the disk.
