Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use.

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Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use.

Engraulis opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

See Paz_Log.txt

To disable dead head on my HDD I use Paz.bat and PazPlus.bat - they contain multiple call's of MarkBad like:

NtfsMarkBad32.exe t: 40077568 40323840
NtfsMarkBad32.exe t: 40560128 40811392
NtfsMarkBad32.exe t: 41050880 41301248
...

But execution of NtfsMarkBad32.exe in batch often gives a error:

Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use.
An error has occurred.

And half of bads does not add to $BasCluster list.

I manage to complete my task using Pz_multi.bat
Just calling Paz.bat again and again until job done.

PS: My HDD is LBA cached by FancyCache
PPS: А па рюски тута спикаютъ?

Rasz_pl · Answer 1 · Sat Sep 25 2021 07:40:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

How did you determine sector map for the bad head?

Engraulis · Answer 2 · Wed Aug 31 2022 04:02:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

HDeadDecaper
https://github.com/Engraulis/HDeadDecaper

jamersonpro · Answer 3 · Tue Jan 10 2023 07:02:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It looks like some other program is reading the contents of the disk after making changes to the file system.
A pause is probably needed before the next launch of NtfsMarkBad.

In version 0.0.2, a batch mode was added, when many clusters can be marked in one run. Just specify a file with a list of sectors ranges in the parameter, in this format:

40077568 40323840
40560128 40811392
41050880 41301248