diff --git a/packages/gatsby/src/utils/node-manifest.ts b/packages/gatsby/src/utils/node-manifest.ts
index d21651a73c3f1..c7e2f330665f6 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby/src/utils/node-manifest.ts
+++ b/packages/gatsby/src/utils/node-manifest.ts
@@ -249,17 +249,24 @@ export async function processNodeManifest(
   )
 
   /**
-   * Commas are considered special characters on Windows and are not valid in file paths with the exception of
-   * the hard disk partition name at the beginning of a file path (i.e. C:).
+   * Windows has a handful of special/reserved characters that are not valid in a file path
+   * @reference https://superuser.com/questions/358855/what-characters-are-safe-in-cross-platform-file-names-for-linux-windows-and-os
+   *
+   * The two exceptions to the list linked above are
+   * - the colon that is part of the hard disk partition name at the beginning of a file path (i.e. C:)
+   * - backslashes. We don't want to replace backslashes because those are used to delineate what the actual file path is
    *
    * During local development, node manifests can be written to disk but are generally unused as they are only used
-   * for Content Sync which runs in Gatsby cloud. Gatsby cloud is a Linux environment in which colons are valid in
-   * filepaths. To avoid errors on Windows, we replace all ":" instances in the filepath (with the exception of the
+   * for Content Sync which runs in Gatsby Cloud. Gatsby cloud is a Linux environment in which these special chars are valid in
+   * filepaths. To avoid errors on Windows, we replace all instances of the special chars in the filepath (with the exception of the
    * hard disk partition name) with "-" to ensure that local Windows development setups do not break when attempting
    * to write one of these manifests to disk.
    */
   if (process.platform === `win32`) {
-    manifestFilePath = manifestFilePath.replace(/(?<!^[A-Za-z]):/g, `-`)
+    manifestFilePath = manifestFilePath.replace(
+      /((?<!^[A-Za-z])):|\/|\*|\?|"|<|>|\|/g,
+      `-`
+    )
   }
 
   const manifestFileDir = path.dirname(manifestFilePath)