I got this locked hard drive error reading.

Asked By Angela King 10 points N/A Posted on - 10/05/2012

Hello,

I got this locked hard drive error reading. The hard drive of the computer system with a windows XP operating system got this kind of error and how can we be able to un lock the hard drive in this case? Can you guys give me a step by step instruction to fix this kind of problem?

Thank you.

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Answered By Mackt Salaop 5 points N/A #174981

I got this locked hard drive error reading.

 

Hi,

There are several things work behind locking HDD specially inaccessibility of software directly on your HDD. Three major causes are-

1.      Trying to set up an additional OS.

2.      Trying to fdisk your HDD.

3.      Setting up programs.

For unlocking the drives Dos file system should be applied. For the commands of dos system please visit-

https://www.computerhope.com/lockhlp.htm

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Answered By LyanaHay 0 points N/A #174982

I got this locked hard drive error reading.

Hi Angela King,

I guess you are getting this lock error when you try to access your hard drive. You can unlock your hard disk if you have enough privilege to unlock  or lock your hard disk.

You can make it through MS – DOS command prompt. Here is command to unlock drive.

UNLOCK [Drive name you want to unlock]:

 e.g. unlock c:

After this command it will ask you to confirm your action by doing so you can unlock your hard drive.

There are few tools available on internet you can get one from HDD Guru.

 

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