Reply to post: forever: well, at least until you reboot

Microsoft Master File Table bug exploited to BSOD Windows 7, 8.1

SimRacerSeymour

forever: well, at least until you reboot

<quote>the NTFS (NT file system) locks $MFT and doesn't release it: “it will be captured forever,”</quote>

A simple reboot fixes the issue. Hardly the forever quoted, especially on an end-user machine.

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