I am under Win 7 64b. I start to suspect SDMinst020.exe when my computer start to lag, very lag, just after swapping partition. It starts doing something else and searching to do something else with Windows Explorer.
The first time, I didn't suspect SDMinst since I had no problem under Vista 64, last year, but I lost my external esata drive with a fresh Win7-64 install. I suspect something else. The drive simple came RAW instead of HTFS, in the drive manager. Unrecoverable, the NTFS table was unreadable by many tools. I used a scan tool to recover files and folders. About 80% was named recovered and the other was untitled recovered.
But the second time I had done a SDMinst, it starts, again to search for something under Windows Explorer. Probably reconnecting the RAW drive. Immediatly, the drive manager indicates RAW instead of NTFS. So the same story.
sdminst don't show the 1TB drive at all. It recognize the sd card and I only use swap partitions on that card. I easily partitionned the card using Ubuntu virtualbox session, that wonderfully mount both partitions. I used sdminst only to swap instead of launching a virtual ubuntu session.
I don't know if sdminst show the 1 TB partition at all, nor if it could display information and/or removable or not.
I would suspect that stupid Win 7 (compare to linux environment) consider any external-removable-hot-swappable devices (my external drive was set as IDE, the first time, and AHCI, the second time, in the bios) like a "single" partition SD card or something like.
I will try to create two partitions in my external drive to test if <<El stupido>> will see both partitions and check if sdminst will tell winstupido to swap external partition or will make them RAW.
P.S.: I have more than 20 years of IT development project experiences, practicing with an undescriptible amount of technology. I like open source communities, and the way people contribute to expand universe ( i am physicist too
) but I have to stick near stupidity for business purposes
