For persistent locks, advanced measures are required. The user can open an and use the mountvol command with the drive’s volume GUID to dismount the volume without a drive letter. Alternatively, the diskpart utility allows the user to select the disk and use the offline disk command, which forcibly resets the lock state. A final nuclear option involves disabling the “Automount” feature in Windows via mountvol /N and rebooting, preventing Windows from automatically claiming newly attached drives before Transmac can access them.