Solved Bsod exfat.sys

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Lennart99

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Hi

I have problems with bsod approx. every third day.
I think this is because I use a memory stick with Truecrypt and it is formatted in exfat. I need the the tc container to be bigger than 4GB, therefore exfat.
The very same memory stick works perfectly fine at work (Win7).


I have uploaded SF_01-01-2013.zip
Any suggestions?

Thanks
 

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If you are not cross sharing the drive between mac and windows I suggest using ntfs. The easiest way to switch would be to mount the encrypted volume and use computer mangement to reformat the mounted volume. Note 1: make sure that you select the drive letter that you mounted using truecrypt and not the volume that windows sees. If you take a screenshot of disk management and trucrypt we can help. Note 2: Backup your files.

Also try running SFC: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html
 

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@townsbg
Ok, I have formatted the encrypted volume to ntfs.
It seems to take 10 times longer to copy the backup back to the stick.
Could you explain why this would help me with the bsod's?

I read somewhere that using ntfs will kill the stick because of more write/read to the stick, but the stick is still exfat and the mounted volume is now ntfs, so this will be no problem, right?

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Lennart99 said:
@townsbg
Ok, I have formatted the encrypted volume to ntfs.
It seems to take 10 times longer to copy the backup back to the stick.
Could you explain why this would help me with the bsod's?

I read somewhere that using ntfs will kill the stick because of more write/read to the stick, but the stick is still exfat and the mounted volume is now ntfs, so this will be no problem, right?

Thanks
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I did not know about the increased read/writes however I really doubt that it will make that big a difference but I could be wrong.

As for the blue screens your error seemed to indicate that it is a driver specific to exfat at least by name. ntfs is a completely different file system. If you research you'll see that there are advantages to using ntfs over exfat but the disadvantage is in cross platform support. Apple obtained a license for exfat and started including native support in Snow Leopard. Mac can therefore write to an exfat volume without any difficulties yet it doesn't do so well with ntfs and won't by default allow write access. Both are 64 bit file systems so you don't have the 4 gb file size restriction of fat32. The partition size is also larger without having an insanely high cluster size.
 

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I doubt very much that the difference in lifespan of the drive will be noticeable - note that they say 'MAY' reduce the life.
It all depends on how you use the drive.

You're probably more likely to lose the drive, than to run into problems with it. (so backups are essential!)
 

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