c drive volume locked

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Running Windows XP Home Edition SP1 and when using the error checking tool,
after double clicking my computer, then right clicking the C drive, then
clicking properties, clicking tools and under clicking the check boxes.
Rebooting the computer a message appears, the volume is locked and error
checking cannot be run. The computer then proceeds to reboot my settings.
How can the volume be unlocked? With it's various problems, Windows XP
Service Pack 2 is not allowed on my computer. Can you help me please?
 
"With it's various problems, Windows XP Service Pack 2 is not allowed on my
computer"

What various problems?

Tom
| Running Windows XP Home Edition SP1 and when using the error checking
tool,
| after double clicking my computer, then right clicking the C drive, then
| clicking properties, clicking tools and under clicking the check boxes.
| Rebooting the computer a message appears, the volume is locked and error
| checking cannot be run. The computer then proceeds to reboot my settings.
| How can the volume be unlocked? With it's various problems, Windows XP
| Service Pack 2 is not allowed on my computer. Can you help me please?
 
What problems? Well, only a few from the news groups.

help every time automatic upgrades service pack 2 my computer crashes and
windows will not start.i have to reload windows .what am i doing wrong

I am installing SP2 on my computer for the first time. I'm understanding
that I need to make a backup disk. I got wizard to talk me through it and it
asked if i want to back up my whole system I said yes, now what i'm
wondering, is can I just back it up on the hard drive, will this take up alot
of memory. I am having a whole other set of problems with my floppy drive so
it seems I can't back up to a floppy. Will I have to wait until I figure out
my floppy drive issues before I can install the SP2.
Also I have a C: local disk and a E: local disk do I need to back up both or
will it back up everything on it's own?


My computer is pestering me to install Service Pack 2. However, I've been
following the commentary on these newsgroups for awhile and it's been hotly
debated -- so it seems like this might be more difficult and/or dangerous
than I'm comfortable with without detailed tutoring. Can someone kindly point
me to a definite website that will give me VERY SIMPLE step-by-step
instructions (like they're directed to a first-grader) for preparing my
computer for the upgrade and then installing it?


I'm trying to install SP2 on my Windows XP Pro, and when it goes on registry
backup SP2 installation fails with the message "Unable to read from or write
to the database" nothing from the net on how to solve this problem although
followed SP2 installation instructions from microsoft. Please help, anybody.


About 30 mins into install I get an access denied message then it takes
another 30 mins to uninstall.Have tried twice and the same things
happen.Anyone else having problems.

After a couple attempts to download and install SP2, I get different advice
from Microsoft. One, SP2 doesn't have to download and install at one time.
Can be added to as items come up and are applicable.

I'm confused about this and I don't want to end up having to uninstall it
and have to reset EVERYTHING that shares the new SP2.
 
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STEREOMAN said:
What problems? Well, only a few from the news groups.
Click to expand...


You won't be able to find a single product (computer-related or
otherwise) without reported problems, particularly on newsgroups.
Whenever a new version of *anything* comes out, you always read
about problems on the newsgroups. But realize two things:
1. If you're reading about problems *here*, this where people
come with their problems, not with their successes. You get a
very distorted view of what's going on in the real world here; as
someone once said, "hang around a transmission shop and you will
think that all cars have transmission problems."

2. Most problems, by far, that people report here--whether or not
they are SP2-related--have nothing to do with defects in the
software. They result from people's ignorance, from bad or
inadequate hardware, from old drivers, from viruses, from
spyware, and so on. And except for very rare situations, they
always get a fix for their problems, and in most cases, that fix
is a very simple one to implement.



I don't claim that SP2 is perfect, or that it's problem-free.
Nothing is problem-free. But my experience with SP2 on the many
machines I've installed it on, and the many more that I know of
its being installed on by others, is that problems are very few
and far between.



Make sure that your computer is virus-free and spyware-free
before installing SP2 (those are the most common cause of
SP2-related problems), and the risk of problems is very slight.
 
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