Locking my C:

gsteinb88 · 07-11-04, 10:41 AM

Ill make this short, i have to go eat. Basically, whenever i try to run something like chkdsk (or partitoin magic) from reboot, it says it cant lock my C: and just skips what it is supposed to do. Does anyone know how to lock a drive using XP? I have tried the lock/unlock commands, but they dont seem to be included in XP. I would love it if someone could help. Thanks a bunch,
-g

07-11-04, 10:47 AM

usually you cant run a chkdsk on your main drive while windows is running

usually it will ask if you want to do one after reboot since then it can do it before the OS is using the drive

gsteinb88 · 07-11-04, 11:34 AM

Sorry if i phrased it wrong. I meant that when i reboot and it goes to that blue screen where chkdsk normall runs, it says that it cant lock my disk or whatever, and just goes on to load normally. Basically the same thing with Partition Magic (the main purpose for gettting this to work is to dualboot my laptop in gentoo linux and XP)
-g

07-11-04, 05:40 PM

hmm, it may have something to do with the HDD in the laptop, was your laptop ment to have XP ??? Did it come with XP???

I have some older laptops that have similar HDD related problems when i use xp on them

if thats not the case, it may be something messed up in your XP or in your bios

I would check out your bios first, then look in computer managment in XP also to see if anything there might fix the problem

gsteinb88 · 07-11-04, 05:41 PM

i bought the laptop in jan with xp pro on it...ill go check out the bios etc.
-g

07-11-04, 05:57 PM

Based on the message you're getting, it sounds like this could be AV related. Do you have boot sector monitoring enabled on your AV app? Less likely, but still possible, your PC may be infected with a boot sector virus. Just some thoughts . . .