I spent most of the day but I got it licked. Wipe the hard drive restore backup boot off windows 10 install select repair select Troubleshoot select command prompt type Bootrec /fixMBR type Bootrec /fixBOOT type Bootrec /rebuild BCD
this last command is confusing because it identifies windows as Windows 7 and asks you to select it... because that is what was upgraded from but I kept thinking something was wrong.
Finally reboot off windows 10 install, select repair it will then make the repair reboot and all is well!
At 07:00 PM 6/19/2017, you wrote:
Try this: https://superuser.com/questions/277394/what-is-the-dos-debug-script-to-low-level-format-a-hard-drive Has worked for me in many situations, back in the day drive overlays⦠Al From: Winterlight Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 5:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [H] locked drive I have a Lenovo Edge laptop with a 500GB Samsung EVO 850 drive running windows 10 PRO. I stupidly did the Creators update last April and seance then I haven't been able to get any MS updates or even download apps from the windows store. Other programs have no problem updating. I had the same problem on another laptop. I solved that problem by restoring a backup that was pre creators update. I decided to do the same thing with the Edge. I did a restore with Acronis and it won't boot. I couldn't figure out why and, eventually I figured something must be corrupt in the boot sector so I did a wipe of the entire drive with Kill disk and, then a Acronis restore but same problem. Diagnostics report that the drive is locked which is why I can't fix it. How can I fix this? I need to get this laptop up and, running and I am prepared to buy another drive if need be. Thanks.
