diff --git a/src/disc/extract.rs b/src/disc/extract.rs
index 53877f0..ff75a26 100644
--- a/src/disc/extract.rs
+++ b/src/disc/extract.rs
@@ -684,7 +684,53 @@ fn available_space(dir: &Path) -> Option<u64> {
     Some(avail)
 }
 
-#[cfg(not(unix))]
+/// Windows has no `statvfs`. This returned `None` unconditionally, which does
+/// not merely skip a test — it skipped the free-space GATE, so a Windows user
+/// extracting a disc to a full volume got a confusing failure part-way through
+/// instead of a clear refusal up front. libfreemkv ships a Windows GUI, so that
+/// is the platform where the friendly error matters most.
+///
+/// `GetDiskFreeSpaceExW` is declared directly against kernel32, matching how
+/// `scsi::windows` already reaches the Win32 API rather than pulling in a
+/// binding crate for one call.
+#[cfg(windows)]
+fn available_space(dir: &Path) -> Option<u64> {
+    use std::os::windows::ffi::OsStrExt;
+
+    unsafe extern "system" {
+        fn GetDiskFreeSpaceExW(
+            lpDirectoryName: *const u16,
+            lpFreeBytesAvailableToCaller: *mut u64,
+            lpTotalNumberOfBytes: *mut u64,
+            lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes: *mut u64,
+        ) -> i32;
+    }
+
+    // Wide, NUL-terminated. An interior NUL cannot reach the API, so reject it
+    // rather than silently truncating the path and measuring the wrong volume.
+    let mut wide: Vec<u16> = dir.as_os_str().encode_wide().collect();
+    if wide.contains(&0) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    wide.push(0);
+
+    let mut avail: u64 = 0;
+    // FreeBytesAvailableToCaller, not TotalNumberOfFreeBytes: it accounts for
+    // per-user quotas, which is what "can I actually write this much" means and
+    // what `statvfs`'s `f_bavail` gives on the unix side.
+    let ok = unsafe {
+        GetDiskFreeSpaceExW(
+            wide.as_ptr(),
+            &mut avail,
+            std::ptr::null_mut(),
+            std::ptr::null_mut(),
+        )
+    };
+    if ok == 0 { None } else { Some(avail) }
+}
+
+/// Neither unix nor Windows: no way to ask, so the gate is skipped.
+#[cfg(not(any(unix, windows)))]
 fn available_space(_dir: &Path) -> Option<u64> {
     None
 }
diff --git a/src/drive/mod.rs b/src/drive/mod.rs
index a11183c..926cf4c 100644
--- a/src/drive/mod.rs
+++ b/src/drive/mod.rs
@@ -1406,8 +1406,18 @@ mod halt_tests {
         let r = sleep_until_halted(&flag, Duration::from_secs(10));
         assert!(matches!(r, Err(Error::Halted)));
         let waited = t0.elapsed();
-        // Flag flipped at ~150 ms; we wake within one 100 ms slice → <300 ms.
-        assert!(waited < Duration::from_millis(350), "waited {waited:?}");
+        // What this test is for: the sleep must end because the flag flipped,
+        // NOT because the 10 s timeout expired. Anything comfortably under
+        // that proves it, and the lower bound proves it did not return early
+        // for some other reason.
+        //
+        // The upper bound used to be 350 ms — flag at ~150 ms plus one 100 ms
+        // poll slice, with a little slack. That measures the SCHEDULER, not
+        // this function: a loaded CI runner took 377 ms and failed, which says
+        // nothing about whether the wake worked. Bound it well below the
+        // timeout instead, so the assertion still distinguishes the two
+        // outcomes it exists to distinguish.
+        assert!(waited < Duration::from_secs(2), "waited {waited:?}");
         assert!(waited >= Duration::from_millis(140), "waited {waited:?}");
     }
 
diff --git a/src/io/pipeline.rs b/src/io/pipeline.rs
index 4310a0c..c28060b 100644
--- a/src/io/pipeline.rs
+++ b/src/io/pipeline.rs
@@ -1839,11 +1839,23 @@ mod tests {
         thread::spawn(move || {
             // Past the first grace window (and past the 250 ms poll cadence that
             // bounds when the window is actually observed), inside the second.
-            thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(600));
+            //
+            // These intervals used to be 600 ms against a 300 ms grace, which
+            // left NO margin: two 300 ms windows end at 600 ms, and the 250 ms
+            // poll cadence can push the observation later still, so on a loaded
+            // runner the second window expired first and the caller abandoned —
+            // failing with Err(Halted) against a race, not a defect.
+            //
+            // Scaled up so the jitter is small relative to the intervals: the
+            // first window ends at ~1.0-1.25 s and the second at ~2.0-2.25 s,
+            // so releasing at 1.6 s sits well inside the second with roughly
+            // 350 ms of slack on either side. The ordering under test is
+            // unchanged; only the margin is.
+            thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(1600));
             rel.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
         });
 
-        let grace = Duration::from_millis(300);
+        let grace = Duration::from_secs(1);
         let res = finish_with_grace(handle, &state, grace, Error::Halted);
         assert!(
             matches!(res, Ok(42)),