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Disk Utility Has Locked Drive

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by glazur

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Because of a loss of power ScanDisk was interupted before completion. Subsequent attempts to run it results in the following message being displayed, "Scanisk cannot continue because a program such as a disk utility has locked the drive". My guessis that since it was interupted it never got a chance to clear a control file or flag and it still thinks it is running. What do I do to clear this problem?

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by maelgwyn

have you tried using the LOCk utility at the command prompt?

type lock
then type scandisk (at a cmd prmpt)

Hope that works

by glazur

Attempted to use LOCK utility on c: drive. The utility returned "locking operation failed".

by glazur

I ended up using my rescue disk and restarted in DOS. Used scandisk from there to clean up problems: bad FAT entries. After that I could go back into Windows and run scandisk from there.

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