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Cannot run chkdsk write protected help please?

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by mikehende, Feb 7, 2022.

  1. mikehende

    mikehende Senior Member

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    Hey guys, I am working on a Lenovo V330-1.5KB Laptop running windows 10. it goes to desktop fine but cannot go the net, click on the Start button, cannot see the C drive Properties when I right click on it, system does not recognize any regular USB flash drive. It only recognizes a Boot USB.

    I tried running SFX/scannow from CMD, it will not run. I then tried running chkdsk/r then chkdsk /c/r/x same deal. It is showing:
    The type of file system is NTFS.
    Cannot lock current drive
    Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.

    There are documents on the laptop which needs first to be saved otherwise I would have tried reloading Win10 so this is where I'm at any ideas please? Thx.
     
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  3. Tony D

    Tony D Administrator Administrator

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    Suggestions:

    1) Pull the drive from the computer and attach it via USB/SATA adapter to a Linux machine.

    2) You can try booting the machine to a live Linux disk. If that works, you can attach a USB drive to the machine and copy the files to it.

    3) Here's an article that uses CMD to remove write protection from drives. Check out solution #1 and #2.
    https://www.diskpart.com/windows-10/the-disk-is-write-protected-windows-10-8523.html
     
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    mikehende Senior Member

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    Those are great options thanks.

    I have been able to run the chkdsk from Elevated Command prompt, been waiting an hour now for the Scanning and repairing to complete, will report back once it does.
     
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    mikehende Senior Member

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    I have Ubuntu on a flash drive but not understanding "how" to get to the internal drive's Desktop files to copy them?

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    Not sure because I've not done it this way before. My guess would be to mount that NTSF partition. Maybe left or right click it, but it needs to be mounted so you can access the files on it.

    Did you see all the bad sectors? You may have to run chkdsk /r on it first. Can you attach the drive to a SATA/USB adapter and connect it to a running machine? If so, you can run chkdsk from the running machine. You'll have to change the target. So the command will be chkdsk :X /r. X would be the drive letter assigned to the USB-connected drive by the OS.

    Don't forget you'll need to run the Command Prompt elevated (Run as Administrator).
     
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    Ok, chkdsk did not complete so it seems only choice now is to pull the drive sighhhh, thanks, report back.
     
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    I replaced the drive and all seems fine so we know for sure. I had also tried removing the drive and connecting to data recovery software but it would not see the drive.

    I appreciate your efforts to help though, thanks, take it easy!
     
    mikehende, Feb 9, 2022
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