No fix for data corruption bug in Windows Home Server

No fix for data corruption bug in Windows Home Server

danwarne via APC Magazine on 27 February 2008 - 10:23 · 10 comments & 7187 views

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Two months after acknowledging a serious data corruption bug exists in Windows Home Server, Microsoft has admitted it still has no fix. The latest update to its knowledgebase entry essentially says, "still workin' on it". The bug relates to a little known, but frequently used, method of writing hidden data to NTFS file systems, which is incompatible with the disk pooling strategy used in Home Server.

The software giant first acknowledged the problem on December 21 last year, providing a list of programs that could cause data on a Windows Home Server to become corrupted, including Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, OneNote 2007, OneNote 2003, Outlook 2007, Money 2007, SyncToy 2.0 beta, QuickBooks and uTorrent.

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(1 reply) #1 atari800 on 27 Feb 2008 - 14:00

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...lets see wow many uses of Winblows or Shmindows or "M$" references will be used in this thread....

#1.1 bluarash on 27 Feb 2008 - 16:30

I would agree except for the last time I checked this was not a Mac propaganda site.

(2 replies) #2 R1pper on 27 Feb 2008 - 14:46

i use XP.

#2.1 +Smigit on 27 Feb 2008 - 14:58

Congrats

#2.2 bluarash on 27 Feb 2008 - 16:35

I use a beta release of Windows 95 (Chicago), both of my CPUs are powered by hamster wheels, and I communicate by smoke signals. Trust me, you don't even want to know how I format a floppy disk.

(2 replies) #3 astrokat on 27 Feb 2008 - 16:03

WTF, those are all popular programs (although it is debatable if they should be on a server). How does a program go from beta to final with that serious of a bug.

#3.1 bigl523 on 27 Feb 2008 - 16:21

The programs aren't located on the server, the files are. The files are only corrupted if they are re-written/edited via the program that is on your client computer. So if you have mp3's on your server and edit the meta tag via winamp, this would cause the files to be corrupted.

#3.2 Avi on 27 Feb 2008 - 19:12

(bigl523 said @ #3.1)

Well, it sounds like a really serious bug to me. Should have been cought and fixed in the beta phase. Do you want to tell me that none of the beta testers directly modified files on the sever? :o

#4 wrack on 28 Feb 2008 - 00:35

Yeah it is a serious bug and I know many professionals who have completely dumped Home Server and have gone back to using Server 2003 and 2008 (faster than 2003) now

#5 Budious on 28 Feb 2008 - 00:37

Appears to be fixed already as the second portion of this patch posted two weeks ago... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941914

Last edited by Budious on 28 Feb 2008 - 00:47

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