Windows 10: How to tell Windows to ignore a failing hard disk?

There's a failing drive in my PC and even through it's E rather than C it's caused Windows to crash, reboot, and try to fix the drive a few times over the weekend.

For reasons, mostly of time, I can't physically remove the drive straightaway, so is there a way to tell Windows to ignore it? Something that makes the OS think there's nothing there?

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Hard disk failing

Failing hard disks cannot be repaired. They must be replaced.

 

Hard Disk is unreadable after updates

Hi Hermawan,

There are a number of reasons why hard disk drives fail. It may fail due to software or firmware damages which makes it unable to interact with the computer, or it may simply be corrupted due to problematic information on the
disk. For us to isolate you concern, we would like to ask the following questions:

• How long have you been using the device?
  
• Have you made changes on the device prior to the incident?
• Was it damaged physically prior to the incident?
• What have you done so far to resolve the issue?
  

In the meantime, we suggest you check the steps provided by
Time Lady on this
thread and see if it helps.

We look forward to your response.

 

Failing hard drive and disk migration


Hi All,
I hope you are well.
I have a laptop with Windows 10 where I suspect the hard drive is failing - Samsung Momentus 750GB
I have noticed that because the system is slow and in Task ManagerI can see hard drive working hard 100% most of the time with pretty low transfer speeds.
I have looked and followed the instructions how to improve this, but none of the steps helped against this terrible slowness.

I have used ddrescue software to clone the failing disk to the identical brand new Samsung hard drive.
I have followed the ddrescue advise and run the whole procedure twice including report log.

The whole process of course has finished with some errors.
I have swapped the disks but at bootup I got "Operating System not found"

I have run Windows 10 installation disk and run a Startup Repair, but it said that it could not succeed and I still got "Operating System not found"

What would you suggest to do next, reinstall from scratch?
This is originally Windows 10 in French and I had to spend time to convert it to English.
If I somehow extract the serial number from it can I install Windows 10 in English and use this serial number or will it work only in French version and do I have to go through this process again?

Please advise
Thank you