Works on Win 8 Pro x64 for me, I have 6 drives formatted to ReFS and they work fine. Maybe look in the event log and see if format logged something. And are you sure that you deleted the volume in computer management, initialized the disk and did NOT let it Format to NTFS?
Try this and this: For those people having problem with "my" (I mean MS) package: 1. open regedit.exe and check that you indeed really have those registry keys imported (it is enough for the beginning to check presence of keyfolders, you can check every single key later)...(it is better to do the import by running regedit.exe and selecting import from the file menu, because you can have your association broken) 2. Remember, that 64 subsystem is in the system32 directory, while 32 subsystem (Windows-On-Windows) WOW is in the SysWOW64 directory. It is for compatibility reason. 3. Now open Administration tools, Computer Management, Erase all (visible) partitions on that drive (if it is possible), or that partition you want to format in ReFS at least (if you have boot-system partition on the same disk), switch from MBR to GPT for better performance (you can do that only, if whole disk is empty), now create new partiotion in that empty space and select "don't format it now" (keep it in raw), now right click your non-system drive in Windows explorer, select format and select ReFS (preferred) or use "format <disk:> /u /fs:refs (nothing more) ...and report if it is working now.
1. Done with succes import. 2. I remember that. 3. I deleted all partitions of my hdd (1Tb) switched it to GPT from MBR. Do new partition keeped in RAW. Right click on disk in explorer, format in REFS and same message "windows was unable to complete the format" I was also trying in command prompt with same problem like in my 11# post. I was trying to format the small partition in future reserved to a system, also tried format to refs hdd with one big partition and same error appear. I also tryied the command without /enable with the same error. hxxp://img688.imageshack.us/img688/4310/51044185.png
...OK, let's continue with solving the problem ...OK, let's continue with solving the problem: Please download free program called VirtualBox, create W8 VM machine there and install Windows x64 Enterprise there... ...and try to import The ReFS package there, what is the result?
So you cannot install ReFS on the Windows 8 partition, but you can format it on another partition or an external drive? What is the benefit of ReFS, especially if it cannot be used on the primary Windows 8 partition?
ok I done one wrong step and put refs.sys file to system32 not to Drivers. Everythings works fine now. Thanks all for help.
Reply: Benefit of ReFS is data security well, I expect, that on your boot system drive there are only OS files, which are 10 times less important than your private data on the other data drives and main benefit of ReFS is resistance to data errors. BTW: ReFS option for the boot system drive will be added in W2012S_SP1...
To be honest, I don't see any real reason, why this driver (ReFS.sys) shouln't run in Windows 7 x64. But you have to tamper with registry setting a little bit.
I'll thank you anyway even though I haven't finished testing your first post of this (the 35MB package) in VMWare, although I do intend to one day; it's just that other projects end up taking precedence. Ultimately I probably wouldn't be using this anyway, but I do enjoy testing the possibilities and respect the programmers efforts, and thanks for organizing the tools in a logical order for others to use. It's good to have choices, too. Cheers. FYI: I probably do intend on using REFS on W8 Enterprise x64; I had tested it before on the CP. My trouble is just that I have so much stuff on my 4x1TB RAID 0 and my 2x640GB RAID 0 drives that I'll have to really do some manipulation to be able to free hard drives for organizing them differently. Either that or wait until I have more money which might be longer.