diff --git a/petastorm/fs_utils.py b/petastorm/fs_utils.py
index 913eb48b..f02684e4 100644
--- a/petastorm/fs_utils.py
+++ b/petastorm/fs_utils.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 import pyarrow
 import six
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
+import platform
 
 from petastorm.gcsfs_helpers.gcsfs_wrapper import GCSFSWrapper
 from petastorm.hdfs.namenode import HdfsNamenodeResolver, HdfsConnector
@@ -33,6 +34,9 @@ def get_dataset_path(parsed_url):
         # s3/gs/gcs filesystem expects paths of the form `bucket/path`
         return parsed_url.netloc + parsed_url.path
 
+    if parsed_url.scheme.lower() in ['file'] and "Windows" in platform.system():
+        return parsed_url.path[1:]
+
     return parsed_url.path