Re: [H] locked drive

2017-06-19 Thread Winterlight


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: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
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.




Re: [H] locked drive

2017-06-19 Thread Al E. Gator
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: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
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.






[H] locked drive

2017-06-19 Thread Winterlight
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.