What makes windows 11 system files get corrupted ?

William654 · Monday at 1:19 PM

From few days my windows 11 refused to load but I was able to use commands like DISM, chkdsk, sfc /scannow and it return to load again. But I wonder what is the most common cause to make windows 11 files get corrupted like this ?.

Causes like Improper Shutdowns or Power Loss , Failing or Faulty Storage Drive, Malware or Virus Infections are not responsible for me so what is the most probably cause for this ?

Ghot · Monday at 1:57 PM

William654

Assuming you are correct and it's none of those other things...
It might be RAM errors?
You could run Memtest overnight, and see if your RAM is getting twitchy.

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Sheikh · Monday at 2:05 PM

William654 said:
most probably cause for this

Sometimes Windows update procedures cause such problems. Don't know why.

William654 · Monday at 2:13 PM

Can event log decide what causes this ? I dont know to check this

William654 · Monday at 2:17 PM

@Ghot I like this app

TechPowerUp MemTest64 1.0 Download

TechPowerUp Memtest64 is a lightweight, standalone utility that lets you check your system memory for problems at the hardware-level. It has a graphi

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but how many times I should select for loops ?

Ghot · Monday at 2:18 PM

William654 said:
@Ghot I like this app

TechPowerUp MemTest64 1.0 Download

TechPowerUp Memtest64 is a lightweight, standalone utility that lets you check your system memory for problems at the hardware-level. It has a graphi

www.techpowerup.com

but how many times I should select for loops ?

I believe it's 8, if you want to be sure.
It's probably better to run overnight.

cheaterslick · Monday at 2:47 PM

Seems to be the nature of NTFS, an old technology that's been band-aided-about since 1993...

Linux file systems are much more robust, but MS is trapped into using NTFS. That's the way it is, unfortunately...

abactuon · Monday at 8:43 PM

In your case, it's probably the hard drive.
If it worked on the server for a long time before being installed in the home computer.

Steve C · Wednesday at 1:37 AM

Cosmic rays?

abactuon · Wednesday at 2:55 AM

cheaterslick said:
Linux

If you say “Linux”, it's a generic word.
For example, “Red Hat Enterprise Linux” uses XFS and ext4.
"Fedora" uses Btrfs.
I guess it all depends on the specific tasks.
You can try ReFS (except for the system disk, I think).

cheaterslick · Wednesday at 5:03 PM

abactuon said:
If you say “Linux”, it's a generic word.
For example, “Red Hat Enterprise Linux” uses XFS and ext4.
"Fedora" uses Btrfs.
I guess it all depends on the specific tasks.
You can try ReFS (except for the system disk, I think).

True, but I was speaking in general terms, not specifics...

idgat · Wednesday at 5:18 PM

William654 said:
But I wonder what is the most common cause to make windows 11 files get corrupted like this ?.

In order ...
Users
Hardware
System

x509 · Thursday at 11:35 PM

cheaterslick said:
Seems to be the nature of NTFS, an old technology that's been band-aided-about since 1993...

Linux file systems are much more robust, but MS is trapped into using NTFS. That's the way it is, unfortunately...

Why is Linux file system more robust?

Why is Microsoft "trapped" with NTFS? And isn't it much better than the older DOS file system? Can't even remember the name.

idgat · Thursday at 11:37 PM

My OS is better than your OS .... {*Y*A*W*N*}

x509 · Thursday at 11:38 PM

idgat said:
My OS is better than your OS .... {*Y*A*W*N*}

Yeah. Mine is bigger, wider, and longer than that other guy's.

Spunk · Thursday at 11:47 PM

The Linux File system is based off of Unix.
The Mac OS is a Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

Microsoft NTFS, or New Technology File System, is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft in the 1990s. It was designed to overcome the scalability, security, and other limitations of the FAT file system. NTFS was developed to add several features that FAT and HPFS lacked, such as access control lists (ACLs), file system encryption, transparent compression, sparse files, and file system journaling..

Microsoft decided to not base their OS on Unix, instead developed. NTFS. Many people feel that Unix is more stable.

x509 · Thursday at 11:57 PM

Spunk said:
The Linux File system is based off of Unix.
The Mac OS is a Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

IIRC, UNIX (which I used on a regular basis lo these many years go) uses a system of file pointers called inodes. Yes? No? How is that system more stable than NTFS.

NOT A TROLL. I'm just trying to learn something new every day. Honestly.

idgat · Friday at 12:13 AM

x509 said:
Yeah. Mine is bigger, wider, and longer than that other guy's.

Most definitely absolutely not going there .... !!!!

cheaterslick · Friday at 5:45 AM

x509 said:
Why is Linux file system more robust?

Why is Microsoft "trapped" with NTFS? And isn't it much better than the older DOS file system? Can't even remember the name.

What @Spunk said. Look it up, yourself. Google can be your best friend....

winkie-winkie

William654 · 2025-06-08T10:19:35-0400

abactuon said:
In your case, it's probably the hard drive.
If it worked on the server for a long time before being installed in the home computer.

using nvme

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