How to totally stop everything from accessing failing drive

[JTCGiants56]

So I have a failing drive attached which I'm restoring data from. I don't want any unnessary reads or writes to it so I purposely excluded the path in everything. At the end of the day I went to eject the drive and saw something was locking it. I checked which process it was and it was everything. I tried remove it from NTFS volumes but the option is greyed out.

How can I make it so everything does not interact with a certain drive whatsoever?

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How can I make it so everything does not interact with a certain drive whatsoever?

To prevent Everything from reading or writing to this drive:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• Uncheck Automatically index new fixed volumes.
• Uncheck Automatically index new removable volumes.
• Select your failing drive from the list.
• Uncheck Include in database.
• Click OK.

[JTCGiants56]

How can I make it so everything does not interact with a certain drive whatsoever?

To prevent Everything from reading or writing to this drive:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• Uncheck Automatically index new fixed volumes.
• Uncheck Automatically index new removable volumes.
• Select your failing drive from the list.
• Uncheck Include in database.
• Click OK.

Thanks for your quick response !