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maharmstone / btrfs

WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
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Partition contains no filesystem #631

Open dagobertdu94 opened 4 months ago

dagobertdu94 commented 4 months ago

I am using v1.8.2 and tested it with Windows 11 x64 and Windows 7 x64 running in VMs. If I try to format any partition with BTRFS, it somehow isn't working. In Diskpart it shows that the filesystem is incompatible and with format.com it shows that it's formatting the partition but ends after showing fast-formatting without any error message or anything else. I already tried the tool mkbtrfs.exe which completed successfully but Windows still can't access the partition. Even if I restart Windows can't open the partition because it's not containing any known filesystem. I am not sure if I am missing something out. It would be nice if somebody could tell me what I am doing wrong...

PS: Sorry for my bad english...

EDIT: It seems to work with Windows 8.1 x64 and Windows 10 x86. The only difference I saw was that they prompted me to restart my system. In Win11 and Win7 I got no "Please restart your system" message after installing the driver. I will reinstall the both and try again. Maybe it was just bad luck in the both VMs...

dagobertdu94 commented 4 months ago

I am done with testing, and it works with WinXP, Win7, Win8.1 and Win10. WinVista fails with the error message that the installation method is not supported on the INF file. And with Windows 11 it's simply not working. I don't know why, but I am still having the problems from above for Win11...