Locking C drive Win 98

firejolt3 · 05-24-2009, 08:47 AM

Hey Everyone,

I’m attempting to delete Primary Dos partition so I can create a new one thru F-Disk. System says "could not change partition because the disk could not be locked". Next, went into the dos prompt and typed in, <Lock C:> System says, "Lock operation failed." Back to dos and typed in, <chkdsk/r> System says, "Instead of chkdsk try Scandisk; it can perform...blah, blah, blah. So, I am running it now. Finished a thorough scandisk – no errors but I still don't know how to "Lock C drive"! It’s frustrating because apparently I need to do so based on what the screen message is saying. If anyone has some idea of how to get that drive locked so we can move on toward completion of getting these partitions taken care of here, any and all replies welcome...just need to get this figured out...thx.

**blah789** · 05-24-2009, 01:10 PM

Is there any data on the disk that's of value (or any other partitions)? If not I think the most expedient thing to do would be to wipe the drive using dban. http://www.dban.org/ There's a floppy version of it too.
To speed things up, for method, pick fast wipe (so it does only one pass with zeroes), and for verify, pick none. Navigation is done via the arrow keys, and selection is done by using the space bar. Remember to select your drive before pressing F10 (you should have *** in the brackets by the drive set to wipe), otherwise it'll be done before it even starts!

firejolt3 · 05-28-2009, 11:58 PM

Blah789 - thx much for taking the time to answer my situation. Got it taken care of. had some other issues w/ computer I've been using for my own and couldn't get to all my mail quick enough to answer to you. thx again.

05-24-2009, 08:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
firejolt3 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2 OS: xp sp3	Locking C drive Win 98 Hey Everyone, I’m attempting to delete Primary Dos partition so I can create a new one thru F-Disk. System says "could not change partition because the disk could not be locked". Next, went into the dos prompt and typed in, <Lock C:> System says, "Lock operation failed." Back to dos and typed in, <chkdsk/r> System says, "Instead of chkdsk try Scandisk; it can perform...blah, blah, blah. So, I am running it now. Finished a thorough scandisk – no errors but I still don't know how to "Lock C drive"! It’s frustrating because apparently I need to do so based on what the screen message is saying. If anyone has some idea of how to get that drive locked so we can move on toward completion of getting these partitions taken care of here, any and all replies welcome...just need to get this figured out...thx.

05-24-2009, 01:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
blah789 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,329 OS: Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP3	Re: Locking C drive Win 98 Is there any data on the disk that's of value (or any other partitions)? If not I think the most expedient thing to do would be to wipe the drive using dban. http://www.dban.org/ There's a floppy version of it too. To speed things up, for method, pick fast wipe (so it does only one pass with zeroes), and for verify, pick none. Navigation is done via the arrow keys, and selection is done by using the space bar. Remember to select your drive before pressing F10 (you should have *** in the brackets by the drive set to wipe), otherwise it'll be done before it even starts!

05-28-2009, 11:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
firejolt3 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2 OS: xp sp3	Re: Locking C drive Win 98 Blah789 - thx much for taking the time to answer my situation. Got it taken care of. had some other issues w/ computer I've been using for my own and couldn't get to all my mail quick enough to answer to you. thx again.