Free hard drive recovery how to unlock the system drive?

Sometimes, your computer may get a blue screen, and on the screen, there is a sentence says that “Refresh your PC. The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again.” As the drive has been locked, you cannot access to the drive, what should you to to unlock the drive? Why this error occurs? The system drive is locked for several reasons. There may have hardware problems in the computer’s hard drive; or your computer get a virus infection; or there are software conflicts which damage the file system.

How to unlock the system drive when this error occurs?

There are several ways for you to unlock the system drive. You can choose one from them to unlock your computer. As you cannot enter into the Windows, you need to boot from the disc.

1. Boot from an installation disc to fix the drive

Find an Windows installation disc, or you can use USB drive which contain installation disc to boot the computer. Locate the option of Repair your computer, click Advanced startup options> Troubleshoot>Advanced options>Command prompt.

Open the Command prompt window, type “chkdsk /f c:” or “sfc/scannow” without quote, note the letter C is the drive letter of your system drive. Press Enter.

Wait for it ends, and then you can reboot your computer, you may have fixed this error and be able to access to the Windows.

2. Refresh your computer

You can boot your computer from the installation disc and then click the option of “Repair your computer.” Click ‘Troubleshoot> Refresh your PC”. Follow the steps on screen to finish the reparation.

How to recover files after the system drive locked?

Using the above way to refresh your PC so that to unlock the drive may let you lost some of your files. Fortunately, although the data deleted by performing Command prompt, they have not been permanently deleted from your hard drive. If you have a data recovery software, you can retrieve them with ease.

How can Hdata recovery software restore your lost files after unlocking the system drive?

you found your computer is locked, you should try the above way to retrieve them first. As you can access to the Windows system, you should check the files on the system drive. If there are important data lost from there, you should download and run the data recovery software at the first time to reduce the data loss and avoid data overwritten.

Click the mode of Deleted your files Accidentally, and then scan the partition C. Preview the scanning results, you will find all your lost files. Check files you need and choose a recovery path, you will successfully recover your data back.

To avoid such kind of errors, you should check your hard drive regularly, and update the anti-virus software to prevent virus or malware infection. Back up your data from now on. Your backups free you from any kind of data loss situations and computer failures.