cannot lock current drive write protected

Volume 5 FAT32 Partition 99 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 4 Recovery NTFS Partition 300 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 3 F Windows 8 NTFS Partition 118 GB Healthy Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System Volume 1 C Windows 7 NTFS Partition 223 GB Healthy Boot Volume # Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info Substitute volume for disk.Ĭopyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation. If it is not set as Read-only, next we would check the volumes for the System and OS partitions. Check the list for which disk you want to inspect.Ĭheck what the Read-only state shos on the drive. I will include an actual listing at the end. Then type the following commands and enter after each. When you get to the command prompt, type Diskpart to open the utility. In your case, if this is the situation, we do not yet know if the entire drive is locked or just one partition. You can use Diskpart to check or change an attribute setting on a drive or partition. If you boot the flash drive, select Repair on the Second Screen. You could also try booting into safe mode.īoot to the Flash Drive, or another Windows 8 option to get you into the TroubleShoot - Advanced Options - Command Prompt (or something similar).

If some type of data corruption from Office is causing the problem, if you can get back in, you may have to repair that. I suppose you could check the following to see if it is involved. What should I do besides another 'clean install' of Windows 8? I truly believe that Windows 8 and I have the same personal feeling about each other. I wanted to refresh my Windows 8, but I got that message: I decided to use USB Flash drive to repair but it failed. I wanted to open a PDF file from my customer on OUTLOOK - a regular, every-hour procedure - and my computer froze.Īfter I restarted, I could not get passed the login screen - my computer used to enter the 'blue background color and nothing else' mode.

'The drive where Windows is installed is locked. What to do when you get the following message on 'the most stable', Windows 8, operating system? I've decided to move my comments about Windows 8 as 'the least stable OS' to a new thread because my problems continue.

Cannot lock current drive write protected