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Windows crashes with a BSoD upon attempting to decompress

Open AadithyaSai opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Windows 10 crashes into BSoD with a PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA error when attempting to decompress a LZX compressed directory.

AadithyaSai avatar Sep 14 '21 16:09 AadithyaSai

I'm sorry to hear that. This would seem indicative of a hardware problem - could be an outright flaw in memory, disk, IO controller, etc, or hopefully just an unlucky single-event upset.

It could be argued that the driver shouldn't be dereferencing invalid areas in memory regardless, at least not from corrupt on-disk data, but that's an issue to take up with Microsoft - Compactor doesn't do any compression or decompression, it just asks the OS to do so.

Freaky avatar Sep 16 '21 14:09 Freaky