BSOD with External Hard Drive

Zardoc · 22 Mar 2011

Disable Paragon from services for a while and tell me if you get bsod again.

You must update your system specs as I have shown in post #6

This will really help out.

Thanks.

martellep · 22 Mar 2011

Hi Zordoc,

Yes, I am using Paragon HFS+.

My system specs are:

Vostro 230 Mini-Tower
Windows 7 32 Bit
Core 2 Duo E7500/2.93GHz
4GB DDR3
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive 7200RPM, 8MB Cache

martellep · 22 Mar 2011

The external hard drive is in the HFS format for Macs, which is why I use the Paragon driver to cross platforms. I will see later this evening if I get the crash with my FAT32 formatted hard drive.

Zardoc · 22 Mar 2011

Thanks for updating your specs Martellep.

I suspect that Paragon HSF+ 8 is the culprit or the drive. Do you crash when using it? Do you have the latest updated version?

I'm not too familiar with HFS since I'm all PC

, but reading Mac partitions with second party software can be tricky. I use Acronis just to image my drive and I have issues with version 2011.

Let's wait and see with the drive issue since you tried a format.

martellep · 22 Mar 2011

Nope, I am able to successfully Read, Write & Delete from the drive with no problems using the Paragon HFS+ driver. The BSOD occurs only when I try to safely remove the drive or turn the drive on when the computer is already on.

Zardoc · 22 Mar 2011

Then, seems to lead to a drive issue. Make sur that everything on your machine is updated from the Dell site and that all drivers are updated. Let's wait and see.

martellep · 23 Mar 2011

Found the problem it is the Paragon HFS driver. I am in contact with Paragon now, still waiting for a response back from tech support. Anyone have any experience with MacDrive?

Zardoc · 23 Mar 2011

Not really with Macdrive, but I was on the right track.

Hope you can resolve the issue.

xgman · 02 May 2011

I had this happen once today with paragon, but way more when I used macdrive. I'll stick with the paragon one as long as it doesn't happen very often.

matero · 23 May 2011

I have the exact same problem and I'm using the lates version since ver 8 doesn't install in win7 SP1...any solutions?
I tried to unistall, clean registry but still same problem. The weird thing is that if you see the properties of hfsplusrec.sys e hfsplus.sys it says version 8.01...... I contacted paragon but they didn't answer...