Does the windows version of Midnight Commander (MC) work independently from Windows libraries? I mean does it have it's own way of reading data off the disk or is it using the OS's abilities? If it's not independent do you know of any file manager that is? (Is it possible?)
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Do you want MC to access the HDD controller directly? If no, you'll deal with Windows file system driver stack no matter what file manager you use.