#181 ext2fsd ends up breaking my W10: black desktop up to no reboot

[rlx2]

Hi everyone,

I believe this is a serious issue.

The setup is a dual-boot PC running W10 (rarely) and Linux. The PC has five HDD's and one SSD. The OS run on the SSD. So I wished to use a Windows app on data stored on my EXT-4 filesystems and I came across Ext2FSD and gave it a try in READ-MODE ONLY (no write).

The result is that Ext2FSD work as expected and the Windows app read a few hundred files from the Ext partitions. Nice.

Unfortunately when I came back to my PC an hour later, it was very unresponsive. After a wile the screen became grey and I got a pop-up saying the desktop was non responsive and I asking if I wanted to stop it. After stopping the desktop the screen went black and I as a Linux user was helpless in front of a black screeen Windows machine!

After booting a couple of times and getting in the same trap I ended up with Windows hanging at boot time.

I ended up having to reinstall Windows10 from scratch.

After the fresh W10 install I started installing the software I usually need and everything was fine until I reinstalle Ext2FSD. I install Ext2FSD without the write priviledge. After that I go in Windows Services and set Ext2FSD service to "manual" start so Est2FSD does no activate until I ask.

After I had Ext2FSD installed (some time after) I notice my Windows became unresponsive again. The behavior was abnormal. I could start and run apps but I couldn't type two letters in the search box on the Taskbar.

After a reboot I found my way to the Program manager and I un-installed Ext2FSD. Now I got back my Windows working normally.

I installed Ext2Fsd-0.69 on an Asus based old Quad-core PC with 8 GB of Ram. That PC works flawlessly under Linux.

Regards

[rlx2]

I did a few file transfers from a TabletPC running W7 to my main PC W10 when Ext2fsd was installed. The file that ended up on the W10 computer were full of garbage (on a Windows partition of course since I disabled the Ext2 write mode in the Extefsd install as I stated in my earlier message). Now I have a file that I can't even delete! See the attache picture.

Fortunately I did just a couple of file transfers and I hope that the directory structure of my Windows partitions was not damaged. Still many hours of fun to come ...

I don't know if that has any relevance but there are two SD cards mounted through an USB adapter on that machine. That usually doesn't hurt, but since I saw another ticket with something like that I thought that the fact there are SD cards mounted may have some relevance here.

That Ext2Fsd-0.69 package looks EXTREMELY TOXIC to me and I would suggest removing it from general distribution until it is more stable.

Sorry for the syntax errors in my prior post. You may imagine that I am quite worried at this point about the state of my PC after running this software.