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hard drive test

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:54 pm
by ThinkPad R
the windows HDD error checking program said something like

access denied to hard drive or something.


it's b/c my laptop has HDD password. right?

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:01 am
by GomJabbar
You have to be logged on with an Administrator account to do a hard drive disk check. You cannot do this with a User account. As far as I know, a hard drive password is not needed for disk checking.

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:21 pm
by ThinkPad R
gotcha

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:31 am
by kskim91
Also if the hdd is "locked" and scandisk cannot access it you can set it to run at next reboot by typing the following in a command window

chkdsk /c