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Corruption in USN Journal or NTFS Log File May Damage the NTFS Volume and Cause Severe Data Loss

The USN journal (or Update Sequence Number Journal) is a new feature introduced with NTFS v3.0. that is responsible for keeping track of all the changes that occur to the files, streams, and directories present on the NTFS volume. It also records changes in their attributes or security settings. The ‘$Logfile’ is another functionality that

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