Well, what "fingered" the dropbox service is actually "windbg", as it indicated that the responsible process was likely "dropbox.exe".
That said, this isn't always accurate, or it may be much more involved that "just that process", but in my experience, it *is* a good indicator.
More than likely, it maybe that the process is performing some sort of file system command that we don't support. As dropbox is one of the companies implementing "streaming" for the files, it may actually be related to that.
You may be able to use "BlueScreenView" or "WhoCrashed" to take a look at the crash information yourself, if you want.
I've flagged this issue for Alex (the Developer), so he can take a look at it.
https://stablebit.com/Admin/IssueAnalysis/27465
And he's better at reading the dumps than I, which means he can get a better idea of what has happened.
As for the minidump stuff, I suspect that the folder path stuff is a non-issue (or more likely a timing issue), and may be safe to ignore.
As for disabling the server, that doesn't do "enough". The driver is still running and working, so it could still cause this issue to occur. Uninstalling the software is the only "real" way to disable it. That or setting the pooled disks as "offline", as that should trigger the service to remove the pool drive.
From my 5 years both selling consumer electronics and repairing computers in a retail situation, I've yet to come across a Seagate drive with any fancy trickery going on under the hood.
Usually its the Western Digital drives that have circuit boards with hardware encryption chips built in that cause the drive to appear scrambled when not used inside its' original enclosure.
A useful feature for data security and encryption for sure, but very annoying if say the enclosure or drive begins to fail and you want to try to save the data...
*Western Digital drives that have these logic boards can be used outside of their enclosures, but they must be re-formatted once taken out of their enclosure.
Erik Wright got a reaction from Christopher (Drashna) in Taking apart an external drive