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re: Lock/Unlock HDD Monday, February 19, 2007 at 9:09 am Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |The command to unlock the HDD is: "unlock c:". |My question is: where is this command entered? At the command prompt? | sky42 Any command which has a space in it obviously needs to be typed in. This is always done at the Command Line Interface (also known as the DOS Prompt).[1] If you still have a DOS Prompt icon in QuickLaunch, you can click that. You can always do a Start; Run ...or hold down the Windows key between Ctrl and Alt and hit R (Win+R). For all those who constantly insist that EXIT can be used to start Windows (IT CAN'T), THIS is the place to use that command to close that DOS Box which is running under Windows and to show Windows (which was ALREADY started) again --that is, to make the GUI reappear. [1] If this is something you do a lot, you could put the command in a Batch File which would allow you to execute it with a click. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Lock/Unlock HDD Monday, February 19, 2007 at 12:41 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) On Monday, February 19, 2007 at 5:51 am, sky42 wrote: The command to unlock the HDD is: "unlock c:". My question is: where is this command entered? At the command prompt? Never heard of this command, its not a Windows command. Who has told you of this command? Many years ago I remember a command that would lock the CD Rom draw but not the HDD. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Lock/Unlock HDD Monday, February 19, 2007 at 1:01 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) ||The command to unlock the HDD is: "unlock c:" || sky42 |Never heard of this command, its not a Windows command. | Keith Stanier Obviously it is a DOS command --as are ALL "commands" to be found on a Windoze box. Try Unlock /? and see what you get. How about marking the previous poster's text in some way? The standard way is with a greater-than symbol. Because the Webmaster's HTML interpreter is so poorly written, I use a pipe. The configuration page for the site also allows smarter choices than you are using. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Lock/Unlock HDD Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 5:20 am Posted by sky42 (33 messages posted) Keith - If you go to the site "Computerhope.com" and search for item# CH000355 it will describe this command. I encountered the lock/unlock problem when working on an old computer with Win98SE and I was unable to load a particular application. I got the message that the "hard drive was locked" and was denying access to it! The computer worked OK other than not allowing anything to be installed. After posting this message I talked to a computer tech and he told me to enter the command at the command prompt, which I did, and everything seems to be OK now. On Monday, February 19, 2007 at 1:01 pm, gewg_ wrote: >||The command to unlock the HDD is: "unlock c:" >|| sky42 > >|Never heard of this command, its not a Windows command. >| Keith Stanier > >Obviously it is a DOS command >--as are ALL "commands" to be found on a Windoze box. >Try >Unlock /? >and see what you get. > > >How about marking the previous poster's text in some way? >The standard way is with a greater-than symbol. >Because the Webmaster's HTML interpreter is so poorly written, I use a pipe. > >The configuration page for the site also allows smarter choices than you are using. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum