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98se "locked disk"
Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 8:19 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by taynsn
(3 messages posted)
windows 98se locked up while using 'windows explorer' to copy files from a failing
logical drive. upon reboot into "normal" mode, i found the failing logical drive
"locked"; 'windows explorer' would not open the drive. issuing "unlock g:" (herein
after the drive letter g: to be assumed) in a dos shell responds with "unlocking
operation failed". booting to a pure dos shell enabled access to the drive allowing
all files on it to be removed. fdisk 'delete logical drive' would not delete locked
drive. issuing "unlock" in pure dos shell executed without error. fdisk then allowed
deletion of logical drive. re-creation of the logical drive via fdisk proceeded normally.
format of logical drive proceeded without error. on boot to "normal desktop" i find
the logical drive is still locked. i presume some 98se utility is executing (as the
problem started due to windows explorer) and locking the drive on "normal" startup
as the drive is not locked in a dos shell. microsoft knowledge base narrowly defines
the "locked disk" problem to conditions that do not exist in this instance, thus
it is of no use. i believe i can restore a partition image of my c: drive to get
beyond this nonsense, but i would prefer not to if it is not necessary. any ideas?
thanks,
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