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Old January 27th 05, 12:47 AM
Thomas Wilburn
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Default disk utility has drive locked

After running disk cleanup, I was unable to access one of my drives.
Scandisk was unable to check the drive because it says a disk utility has the
drive locked. I have no other disk utilty on my machine. Is there some way
to unlock that particular drive?
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Old January 27th 05, 01:13 AM
Rick T
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Thomas Wilburn wrote:
After running disk cleanup, I was unable to access one of my drives.
Scandisk was unable to check the drive because it says a disk utility has the
drive locked. I have no other disk utilty on my machine. Is there some way
to unlock that particular drive?


Try it in Safe Mode



Rick
 




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