Windows 10: Urgent! ReFS drives are not accessible after rolling back from 24H2

I fresh installed Windows 11 24H2 and rolled back to 23H2, and I realized that all the drives that are in ReFS format are no longer accessible. Clicking them will pop a window asking you to format the drive. Disk management shows file system as "raw".

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Factory reset Windows 11 24H2 (build 26100.863)

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

There are no currently listed problems resetting version 24H2 of Windows 11 and no specific steps you need to perform, are you experiencing any problems with that insider build that is causing you to perform a Windows reset?

 

ReFS drive unaccessible after update

Hi everyone,

After last Enterprise Insider update that got me to build 17074.1000, my ReFS formatted drive (no replication, just a partition used like any other) got totally inaccessible.

Cannot access drive F:

The parameter is incorrect.

I've given up and tried to recover the data with ReclaiMe, but now it is marked as RAW instead of ReFS. What can I do to get the data back? And no more ReFS for me.

 

Cannot access shared network drive


Personally, I wouldnt use Everyone. If anyone hacks into you, they have full access to everything and can demolish everything on your raid. I would rather set up accounts and access separately for each person. That way, I know who did all that damage. In the end with a little extra work, I feel more secure by using Authenticated Users.


If this helps.
step 1 create non-microsoft account and without email and address without admin rights
step 2 share a drive or folder to specific user account (if Everyone is listed, remove it)
step 3 set security > add Authenticated Users (if more than 1 account) or add specific users
step 3a remove Everyone from list
step 3b uncheck full control and write for all items listed except SYSTEM and Admin account.
step 4 right click Start > Computer Management > System Tools > Shared Folders > Shares ... to verify settings and change anything else. You can also see the number of connections to each share here.