How does NTFS deal with file system errors during disk mounting?

[ProfRon]

You ever plug in a drive and Windows just freezes up a bit? That's NTFS sniffing around for glitches right when it mounts the disk. It peeks at its journal first, that little logbook of changes. If something's off, like a half-written file from a crash, NTFS rolls back to the last good spot. You might not notice, but it skips the bad bits to keep things smooth. Sometimes it flags bigger messes and nudges you to run a quick fix tool later. I remember once my external drive acted wonky on boot. NTFS caught a stray entry and patched it without me lifting a finger. It won't let you access junk data that could crash your setup. Pretty slick how it auto-heals minor scrapes during that mount phase. You boot up, and boom, it's already mending fences behind the scenes.

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