Is there a way to prevent Windows from taking control of a hard drive?
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Mar 15, 2026786 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I own a copy of SpinRite, a hard drive recovery and maintenance utility, that can't run under Windows because it requires such low-level access to the drive. Typically, you create a boot disc that runs SpinRite on top of FreeDOS in order to scan your drives. This means the computer is out of commis…
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Remove the drive letter assignment from the volume manager in the control panel and reboot. (I have a German Windows so I can't tell you the exact name) That way there's no high-level access possible to that drive and that might be just enough to al…
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