The first 10 inodes serve special purposes. They are

• $MFT (0)
• $MFTMirr (1)
• $LogFile (2)
• $Volume (3)
• $AttrDef (4)
• . (5 - the root directory)
• $Bitmap (6)
• $Boot (7)
• $BadClus (8)
• $Quota (9)
• $UpCase (10)

The description of some of these files is on p. 31.