How to Unlock a Mounted Drive

Your computer's internal hard drives can be locked or unlocked through a DOS prompt in Windows. If you have a locked mounted internal hard drive, you will need to unlock it to write information to it. Locking hard drives is a precautionary measure to make sure no sensitive data can be erased. Unlocking your hard drive will allow you to write information to it again. Unlocking a mounted internal hard drive will take about five minutes.

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  Click "Start" then click "Run."

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  Type "cmd" at the prompt then hit "Enter."

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  Type "unlock y" where "y" represents the letter of the locked hard drive. For example, if your mounted drive letter is "c" you would type "unlock c"