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Is there a clean way to obtain exclusive access to a physical partition under Windows?

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Mar 15, 20264824 views
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I'm trying, under Windows 7, to run a virtual machine with VMWare Player from an OS installed on a physical partition. However, when I boot the virtual machine, VMWare Player says that it couldn't access the physical drive for writing. This seems to be a generally acknowledged problem in the VMWare…

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\\.\PhysicalDrive0

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I have come across only one possible solution, using the free virtual disk driver imdisk together with devio (remote drive access and acquisition). As imdisk is a kernel driver, it might be able to write to the partition. Unfortunately, as devio wor…

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