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[davidm71]

This is a repost of a complaint I posted in the Wilders Security Forums which fields Paragon software issues:

"Few days ago I installed HFS+ for Windows, then the other day I noticed that my system blue screened upon shutting of siting error in fltmgr.sys. I thus rebooted and went into event viewer ( was hard as bsod were popping up) and saw that some file called uim something .sys was having errors. I googled it and found it to be a Paragon file. To make matters worse I couldn't uninstall it and had data corruption and had to revert back to my last april backup loosing data. This is not good...

So I wasn't a hundred percent sure it was that utility so I copied my good partition to another drive on my system and installed the HFS Windows utility again and got an immediate BSOD upon boot! I mean who do these guys hire to do their programming? High school drop outs? Who is doing the beta testing? Is there any quality control here?! This is ridiculous!

This is the second issue I have had with a Paragon product in a month. The first being Paragon Partition Manager Pro crashing upon seeing an ntfs - HFS hybrid guid multi parition drive. Had to upgrade to the HDM Suite Pro with a newer engine to fix this problem. So I don't know why I installed this HFS utility considering what happened before, and I can tell you that I no longer trust Paragon with my data. As far as I'm concerned trashing someones drive is a serious offense!"


I advise any dual HFS NTFS booters to stay away from this product. It is very dangerous!

[3.14r2]

I do remember having same sad experience with some of their products (it was a beta HFS driver though). BSODS were very common. Eventually Apple has released HFS driver.

[Dr. Hurt]

Same here, BSOD every couple of shutdowns.

[spd5mx]

No problems so far, i'm running Mac and Win versions, some time ago i got BSOD when i tried to write or erase something in HFS+ partitions on win7 because i switched ports on my HDDs but i made a reinstallation of the driver and so far no more BSODs.

[BugsB]

thanks for the warning. Probably some incompatibility with another low-level FS related driver you have installed. I had a similar issue before with my backup software back then, from Acronis or so, which was causing BSODs.

[manoooze]

Hi,
I've recently tried on my dual boot hackintosh ( Lion - Windoz7 ) Paragon HFS+ 9 for Windows because I always need Windows for Bluray ripping & for Solidworks 3D CAD >Result : Blue Screen Of Death after the second reboot on Windoz7.Unable to boot, even if I was trying Safe Mode.

I've finally found what we must do :

1. Boot on OS X & be sure to have Paragon NTFS installed ( v9.0 is speedy & -at the opposite of HFS+ for Windoz-works like a charm in Lion...)
2.Go to : C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ & delete all files which begin like hfs*.sys
3.Try to reboot your windoz partition : it must be ok.
4.Uninstall HFS+ For Windoz & Reboot now

Hope it will be helpful for someone of the Hackintosh community

[VideoSpigot]

If you're using a 3TB drive as your primary, and you dual boot on it, your best bet is still Paragon. Even the most current version of MacDrive fails on 3TB drives and will leave you with a 2.2 limit.