This is probably a long shot, but is there anyway to make Windows detect a hard drive in the same or similar fashion as Linux does? Windows can take forever to recognize a failing drive, and thus put more strain on it, while the same drive in a Linux environment may load up with no issues, and even still be accessible.
And this also prevents me from running Linux in a VM for drive recovery, since Windows would still need to recognize the drive before the VM can have access to it. Yes, I realize I could just run a Live disc, but then I can’t use Windows while performing drive recovery in Linux.
