[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ddrescue-1.4-1

[Christian Franke]

Tom Rodman wrote:
> On Tue 6/19/07 10:23 +0200 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
>   
>> Version 1.4-1 of ddrescue has been uploaded.
>> (http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html)
>>     
>
> I'm a big fan of ddrescue, thanks for the tool!  I used it
> recently under linux to repair an image hard disk that contained
> an NTFS file system.
>
> But how do you prevent windows from accessing the drive your
> running cygwin ddrescue on?  Or to you just assume no windows OS
> process is going to touch the extra drive you have attached to 
> your PC?  I assume that is the approach, right?  Or is there
> a way to unmount a hard drive in windows (say for a SCSI drive)?
>
>   

To unmount drive X: try

  mountvol X: /D

Christian



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