I'd investigate which piece of software is locking the disk at boot. A possible cause might be security or antivirus software. It might be the intended operation of such s/w so as to prevent alteration of the binary files associated with the security s/w suite. In that case, you might be able to get around the problem by temporarily disabling the software (hopefully wouldn't require an uninstall) or finding an option to instruct the s/w to *not* lock the disk on startup (not sure how many s/w packages actually make that optional, but some do).
- G ----- Original Message ----- From: Stu Packett To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:45 AM Subject: [FDE] Check Disk for Bad Sectors Before Install FDE Software? My team has been evaluating several Full Disk Encryption products. All vendors have told them to check the disk for bad sectors before installing the FDE software. However, when my team does a "chkdsk 'f" on the C: drive (only drive on our laptops), they get a message back from chkdsk that says the "volume is in use by another process". The other alternative is to use the diagnostic CD that came with our laptops, but that would take hours per laptop to complete. To do a mass FDE rollout with the diagnostic CD is unrealistic. My question is - what do you recommend for my team to check if the disk has bad sectors before we install the FDE software? Because we plan to do a rollout, we obviously need a method that can be automated. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
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