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  • Mount Hidden System Volume
  • Mount Method 1 - 'mountvol' (recommended)
  • Mount Method 2 - 'diskpart'
  • Access the Files
  1. windows

File System

Last updated 2 years ago

Mount Hidden System Volume

Mount Method 1 - 'mountvol' (recommended)

REF =

# With mapping (not sure what this means)
mountvol b: /s
	# 'b' is drive letter of your choosing
# Without mapping (not sure what this means)
mountvol b: /d

Mount Method 2 - 'diskpart'

REF =

Run command prompt as administrator.

diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
list partition
select partition 1
assign letter=b # or just 'assign'
exit

Access the Files

If it is a system partition, like the EFI partition, you need to kill explorer.exe and run it with administrator priviledges.

I've found that navigating to C:\Windows and opening explorer with "Run as administrator" does not work.

The following method works.

First, run command prompt as administrator. Then...

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
explorer.exe /nouaccheck

Then navigate to drive B:\ in explorer and you should be able to browse the files.

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