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Hard Drive Locked!

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by dave.l.r

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I have tried to format my hard drive but no matter what boot disk i use, i'm always told the drive is write-protected. This also happens to any floppy i try to format or write to. i am using windows XP and can only guess that i have a virus of some sort. Please help.

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by bohicam1

I have come across this several times. To unlock a drive, use a win98 boot disk and at the dos prompt type A:\unlock. If that doesn't work try lock /? to see the parameters.
Good luck!

Mike

by tecm81

This problem maybe caused by using the NTFS file system which many users use and can be very difficult to troubleshoot and format

by gigelul

Hi,
Check at manufacturer site for, what do you need to perform a low level format.
Some motherboards have this option in BIOS but is more safe to use manufacturer procedure.

by saihib

Do a search on the web for delpart.exe. It's free and downloadable from many places. Put the file on a bootable floppy and boot from it. Run the program and delete all partitions. Then format the disk.

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