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A solution to Defrag/Scandisk "a disk utility has locked this drive"
Over the years, a number of people have posted messages asking for solutions
to the problem that sometimes turns up in Windows 98 SE, in which Defrag or Scandisk won't run on certain drives; an error message appears saying that the program can't run because "a disk utility has locked the drive". Very few clear answers have shown up, but I just found one that applies on my system and perhaps on others also. I use CD Anywhere to emulate a CD drive using disk images. Whenever I have an image of a drive loaded into one of the virtual CD drives created by CD Anywhere, and I then try to run Scandisk or Defrag, I get the "locked the drive" error on the largest partition on my system (the other partitions aren't affected); the partition also happens to be drive H: though I don't know if the letter is relevant. All the other partitions present no problems. If I "eject" the CD image from the virtual CD drive, the problem immediately goes away. This may not have anything do with other people's experience of this error message, but it's definitely reproducable here. I'm posting it so that someone who encounters this problem may be able to find an answer through a Google search someday. Edward Mendelson |
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A solution to Defrag/Scandisk "a disk utility has locked this drive"
Thanks for passing that along Edward.
Here are a couple additional causes to add to the list. Error Message: ScanDisk Cannot Check Drive: http://support.microsoft.com/default...98&Product=w98 Error Message "Windows Cannot Defragment This Drive now Because It Has Been Locked by a Disk Utility" When Using Disk Defragmenter: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=286810 -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 "Edward Mendelson" wrote Over the years, a number of people have posted messages asking for solutions to the problem that sometimes turns up in Windows 98 SE, in which Defrag or Scandisk won't run on certain drives; an error message appears saying that the program can't run because "a disk utility has locked the drive". Very few clear answers have shown up, but I just found one that applies on my system and perhaps on others also. I use CD Anywhere to emulate a CD drive using disk images. Whenever I have an image of a drive loaded into one of the virtual CD drives created by CD Anywhere, and I then try to run Scandisk or Defrag, I get the "locked the drive" error on the largest partition on my system (the other partitions aren't affected); the partition also happens to be drive H: though I don't know if the letter is relevant. All the other partitions present no problems. If I "eject" the CD image from the virtual CD drive, the problem immediately goes away. This may not have anything do with other people's experience of this error message, but it's definitely reproducable here. I'm posting it so that someone who encounters this problem may be able to find an answer through a Google search someday. Edward Mendelson |
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A solution to Defrag/Scandisk "a disk utility has locked this drive"
Bert, yes, and thanks for adding that to this thread. Those are the
knowledgebase articles that people are typically sent to when they raise the question, and the usual reply is that they don't apply to the current situation. After posting my message, I realized that the same problem may occur with other CD emulators like Virtual CD (which I used to use). I'm just adding the name here to make it more likely for people who search this problem in Google. Edward Mendelson "Bert Kinney" wrote in message ... Thanks for passing that along Edward. Here are a couple additional causes to add to the list. Error Message: ScanDisk Cannot Check Drive: http://support.microsoft.com/default...98&Product=w98 Error Message "Windows Cannot Defragment This Drive now Because It Has Been Locked by a Disk Utility" When Using Disk Defragmenter: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=286810 -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 "Edward Mendelson" wrote Over the years, a number of people have posted messages asking for solutions to the problem that sometimes turns up in Windows 98 SE, in which Defrag or Scandisk won't run on certain drives; an error message appears saying that the program can't run because "a disk utility has locked the drive". Very few clear answers have shown up, but I just found one that applies on my system and perhaps on others also. I use CD Anywhere to emulate a CD drive using disk images. Whenever I have an image of a drive loaded into one of the virtual CD drives created by CD Anywhere, and I then try to run Scandisk or Defrag, I get the "locked the drive" error on the largest partition on my system (the other partitions aren't affected); the partition also happens to be drive H: though I don't know if the letter is relevant. All the other partitions present no problems. If I "eject" the CD image from the virtual CD drive, the problem immediately goes away. This may not have anything do with other people's experience of this error message, but it's definitely reproducable here. I'm posting it so that someone who encounters this problem may be able to find an answer through a Google search someday. Edward Mendelson |
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