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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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sata hdd locked

October 3rd, 2013, 9:26

I have a second sata hdd that I have partitioned, scanned, wiped, and ran disk test utilities on. There is no data to speak of. The drive had some bad sectors and I was able to remap them using various utilities. Now I am trying to verify the hdd and it tells me the disk is 'locked' and in use'. I cannot find out what application is supposedly using it or how to unlock it. I have never seen this before.
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