Unload NComputing Filter driver

Goals

Perform a Disk operation such adding a Dedicated Backup

There are some operations, namely attaching a dedicated backup drive that do not work when the NComputing vSpace server is installed.

• Windows Server Backup Complains that the disk went missing after reinitializing and attempting to start formatting

• Event Viewer reports errors such as
  • Event ID 3
  • Filter Manager Failed to attach Volume

Procedures

Observe that the Filter Driver is Loaded

• Open Command Prompt as Administrator
• Enter the command:

fltmc

• Observe that there are 2 or 3 entries
  • MpFilter - The Microsoft Security Essentials filesystem driver
  • NcFsfltr - The Ncomputing Filter driver
  • luafv - User Account control filter

We want to unload the Ncomputing one...

Unload he NcFsFltr driver

• Enter the command

fltmc unload ncfsfltr

• Enter the command fltmc again
• Observe that the Ncomputer driver is now gone

Perform your disk operations

Now you can add your dedicated backup disk, and Windows Server Backup will not compain while attempting to format it

Load the Filter driver or reboot

• After you are done formatting you backup disk, or other operations, you can reload the filter driver, or just restart the computer
• The reload command is

fltmc load ncfsfltr