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Chkdsk will not run at reboot, only one partition
I bought my ProBook from a friend who had obtained it as part of an Online Degree Program with (I believe) Everest University (?) or Everest Online College.... It is set up with only one partition (C:). When I try to run a chkdsk /f or any chkdsk... it says I must reschedule it for reboot, it can not run on the current volume in use. I check the boxes and click restart and chkdsk doesn't run. I have tried: tweaking.com's All-in-One Windows repair tool, tried running it from a cmd prompt as administrator, after booting with my Windows Install disc and using the cmd prompt from the Repair menu and nothing works. After running it from the Windows Install disc I did get the following message:
In the cmd prompt window...
X:\Sources> chkdsk /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.
X:\Sources>
I found a thread here which led me to a wiki article at:
How do you turn off write protect on your hard drive
and after trying the answers there nothing has been resolved. I used a FixIt tool to reset a registry setting which produced a message that it had been successful but the issue remained. It also referred to a Lock sys: on/off command which I tried at a cmd prompt which produced a message that it was an invalid command. I googled Lock sys: on/off command which produced nothing to help me...
Could that Online University (or college...) have set something to cause this? Every day, I get 4 Internet Explorer windows that open up soliciting her to come back to the program but haven't pursued anything with them. (Probably because I'm a little p***d - er, frustrated)
I do appreciate your help and suggestions,
Mike