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ume’s master file table represents each file. Note that this “metadata”
is maintained by NTFS using a journaling mechanism. The data
itself (the contents of the file) is not protected and is left for the call-
ing application to protect. For Microsoft Exchange databases, this is
achieved by transaction logging and checksum of database pages and
transaction log file records.
The second phase consists of verifying the indexes of the NTFS vol-
umes, which are essentially the directory files. CHKDSK makes sure
that the directories are consistent and that each FRS has a corre-
sponding directory entry in one or more indexes. I