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After scaning my drive I find an erro message that states " the drive is locked by a disk utility. I have no idea how I locked this drive. but when I go to burn a cd it will not even recognize the drive itself. any help is geatly appreciate.
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02-28-2003, 08:37 AM
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It could be anything... system restore... norton recycle bin... Make sure you dont have any disk utilities monitoring the drive.
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02-28-2003, 08:40 AM
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A few questions that might help the reaching of a verdict:
- What exactly do you mean by "After scanning my drive"?
- Have you actually physically got a CD disc in the drive?
- What CD-Writing software are you using? (Nero Burning ROM, Roxio Easy CD Creator, etc)
- If it is Nero, is InCD running / if it is Roxio is DirectCD running? (would by in System tray next to clock if so)
- This may seem daft, but have you re-booted?
Cheers!
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02-28-2003, 08:55 AM
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I m ua Sony Bs Recorder Gold 5. The reason I scan the disk was that I would not figure out what the problem was. this at least told me th drive was locked by a disk utility program. I have even reinstalled the sony softer but it does't recognize my e drive. It looks into the f drive where I have another read only cd. Everything was working fine unitl two nights ago. How could I determine what disk utility was being utilized. tom
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02-28-2003, 09:00 AM
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Where would I look to see if a disk utility was monitoring the drive.
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02-28-2003, 09:58 AM
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If something is monitoring the drive it will be listed in the 'active processes'. Control-alt-delete and see what you have going. You can look up the exe abreviations at a variety of sights if you aren't familiar with them. You'll easily figure out which one it is.
ooh - forgot to mention. There is a possiblity that the program getting in your way installed an imcompatible driver, so once you figure out which one it is, you may need to uninstall it and reboot.
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02-28-2003, 11:24 PM
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Just a quick note- unplug the drive from inside and plug it back in.
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03-01-2003, 07:45 AM
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03-01-2003, 08:18 PM
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[COLOR=red] YANK0826: that was so brilliant and so simple.
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