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TECH198
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HFS+ on WIndows A/V scan issues

I'm using MacDrive Trial standard in Windows 7 VM, mainly the point is to scan my 4TB USB drive at USB3.1 controller speeds, Basically, i figured it was a good way to bypass the slow performance of HGFS shared folder on VMWare (its ok for small files accessing, but its slow as hell)

USB drive drive is detected in Windows after installing Intel's diver + Macdrive in VM, however i hit snag

Antivirus scanning completed entire scan in only 10 seconds..

I'm assuming the culprit here is MacDrive. however once installed, i can open Windows explorer, and view my files just fine and read them, Its just Antivirus scanning doesn't work. properly.. Apart from switching to the slower, VMWare shared folders, is there a solution?

I've also tried HFSExploer by Catacome (free), but there is no Windows shortcut in explorer context menu.

 

What are my options of scanning Windows on HFS drive in VM ? I know i could use rely on VMWare's shared folder but weather i do this, or use SMB (networking t share the HFS drive from Mac), it wouldn't really matter, it is still not a direct connection via USB controller and still would have the same performance issue....

 

 

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ColoradoMarmot
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So those kinds of disk format drivers are problematic at best (NTFS on OSX is the same) - file corruption, performance issues, etc.  

If you need to access drives from both systems, exFAT is really the best option.  Just make sure you have a good backups as it's more prone to corruption because it has a single copy of the FAT table.

Aside, there's plenty of Mac-based AV software packages that scan for windows malware as well as OSX malware.  Why not just use one of those?

 

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scott28tt
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@TECH198 

I thought I recognised this topic: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/shared-folder-slow/m-p/2292435

 


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TECH198
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ok... I might just stick with shared folder access... At least we agree that works kinda.

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TECH198
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MacDrive works ok on Windows 10

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