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I use my PC to write software using Visual Studio.

A few days ago my PC needed to restart because of Windows 10 updates.

When the PC rebooted, it came back to the new blue screen.

Drive locked

A site called Neo Smart appears to know what is going on, so I followed some of their basic command line steps.

https://neosmart.net/wiki/the-drive-where-windows-is-installed-is-locked/

Most commands executed with no errors, until I told it to > bootrec /rebuildbcd, and it fails.

Error 1

Now I can't move forward.

Fixboot Access Denied

Neosmart 17 Fixboot

It looks very similar to this question with a solution:

How to unlock a Hard Drive and Refresh PC

But the solution above did not work for me.

What should I try?

jp2code
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The problem resolved itself for the poster when the computer was left alone for about 30 minutes. The disk then unlocked itself and Windows came up with the Login screen.

One possible explanation is that Windows Update was still doing some management stuff in the background, and it was probably Windows itself that was locking the disk.

One advice is then when the disk is locked after a Windows update, is just to wait for the problem to resolve itself. If after a long wait the problem is still there, then this is a different problem.

harrymc
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