Windows 10: Enable or Disable ReFS File System in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

I'll put something together along with a bunch of hard drive/partition/imaging tools and utilities with command-line selection menus. I could put one together with MiniXP, too (my preferred OS since it runs on so little RAM it loads almost instantly from bootup), but people need to be very careful with that if they have multiple drives since they show up out of order most of the time in a PE environment.

 

is the default refs v1 or refs v3?

 

Hello biatche, *Smile

I can't find any documentation on it, but I would assume that it would be the latest version.

 

https://forums.mydigitallife.info/th...iver-v3-1-Pack

does appear hacky... but refs v3 does appear to have a lot of goodies in it.

 

I currently have ReFS v3.1 running on my Win 10 Enterprise desktop. It did not require whatever method of running .vbs scripts and the like the DigitalLife.info link's author is going on about. It works on non-mirrored drives (as you can see in the screenshot below) and does not require the MiniNT registry entry that needs deleted after you use it or your system will boot thinking it's in PE mode.

 

Hello DrEmpiricism, *Smile

The MiniNT key is only to allow being able to format with ReFS, otherwise Windows 10 natively supports ReFS drives.

 

It supports ReFS in its OOBE only on mirrored devices and virtual machines. It has the ReFS files on the system but 99% of the registry entries are omitted. Even using the MiniNT registry entry is sporadic for people formatting actual drives with ReFS and very inconsistant.

Also in its OOBE, Windows 10 does not even recognize a ReFS formatted drive because, again, the registry entries are omitted. It's not difficulty to add ReFS as a recognizable filesystem permanently within Windows 10 and its registry settings.

 

Microsoft to remove full ReFS support from Windows 10 Pro, push Workstation SKU | Ars Technica

 

So does this mean Refs is never going to really take over from NTFS?

Given Macriun Reflect Free only does Rapid Delta Restore on NTFS, I cannot see why I would ever move to Refs.

 

For most consumers, it isn't even needed or feasible, in my opinion.
Plus you can't even boot Windows from it, and Store apps cannot be installed on it.