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Summary

Windows Server 2016 ReFS driver crashes when trying to mount ReFS 3.4 that disguised ReFS 3.1.

Affect

  • Windows Server 2016
    Tested with KB4483229 applied

Not affect

  • Windows 10 v1809
  • Windows Server 2019

How to crash

  1. Boot from Install media of Windows 10 v1809.
  2. Press shift + 10.
  3. Run below commands. (Change X: as appropriate)
format X: /fs:refs /q /y
refsutil fixboot X: 3 1 4096 -f -w .
  1. Shutdown Windows PE.
  2. Connect that disk to WS2016.
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