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re: 98se "locked disk"
Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5923 messages posted)
If a logical drive is failing, then the hard drive is failing. Pull all data off
of the drive (to another physical drive) and run the manufacturers diagnostics program
on the drive. Totally delete and repartition/restore your C image if the drive tests
good, but remember that all failures are not picked up by the diagnostics programs.
If the drive is developing problems, it will keep having problems and data corruption..
On Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 8:19 am, taynsn wrote:
>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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- 98se "locked disk" (taynsn: Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 8:19 am)
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