Ext2Fsd BAD_POOL_HEADER BSOD on Windows 7
I have been using Ext2Fsd for a long time, everything was fine while using Vista. I decided to upgrade to Windows 7 after the release candidate was made available. For the most part everything was fine, until I started browsing my ext3 /home partition where I keep all my data. Sometimes I would get lucky and be able to open the file I wanted, however in most cases I was met with a BSOD saying something about a BAD_POOL_HEADER.
I am not a programmer, in fact I am probably one of the worst candidates for a programmer, I don't like it either. Thankfully for me though a gentleman named Bo Brantén developed a version that eliminates this issue. He describes the issue on the Ext2Fsd project page as a response to the posting of version 0.48. Apparently the issue was caused when the driver referenced memory after it was freed.
The updated version can be downloaded from the link below. Replace your ext2fsd.sys in C:\Windows\System32\drivers with the updated version and reboot.
November 18th, 2009 - 13:50
Thank you very much, I have had this problem since the RC came out. I hope it works!
February 28th, 2010 - 19:28
this driver is unsigned, so windows 7 64bit doesn’t load it
you can bypass this treacherous computing feature with this guide http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2009/08/24/loading-unsigned-drivers-in-windows-7-and-vista-64-bit-x64/
March 3rd, 2010 - 13:17
Cool, thank you for the information.