Any attempt to access the drive is an instant, "Access Denied" msg.
Let me go at this a different direction. Do you know a way to make a searchable image file from the drive (and if that'd work)? I certainly know how to create an .iso from a working machine but this is obviously an external...
I tried Gavin's script alone and it caused an "application not found" error. No, the drive is not encrypted with BDE. I would see a lock icon over the drive letter and would hv the opportunity to input the passphrase and that's not the case. At least that's the case with another drive I hv...
Did, and that breaks the app. ("Application not found"). Gotta tell y'all, I'm not real comfortable messing with the registry like this. Do I need to add Garlin's keys to the original? Can do that.
Hope you are still monitoring this. I have a drive that was in another laptop that died (Win 10). Connecting to my Win 11 machine results in "Access Denied" to the OS drive (it was dual-partitioned and the second partition has no problems being read). I tried this patch (including the .reg)...