Not sure but could the locked bit be that the drive was mounted maybe thus
locked...
On 18 Jun 2013 09:00, "Gordon Scott" <gordon@???> wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 12:03 +0100, Gordon Scott wrote:
>
> > So I'll be doing a fresh install again from Win8-Pro again.
>
> A followup on this if anyone's interested.
>
> I installed afresh from Win8-Pro.
> I formatted the memory stick to NTFS and using Linux, copied the
> recovery or restore partitions (the one with the most data) to the
> memory stick, then used Win8-pro to 'refresh', which appears to have
> recovered all the Win8 drivers, but I presume reverted to Win8-Home (how
> does one tell?). So then I did the upgrade to Win8-pro.
> Seems to have gone OK.
>
> It all now dual boots again as intended, and the broken bit (the
> touch-screen) works again in both OSs.
>
> Incidently, I had a lot of trouble when trying to restore/refresh
> because the partition with Win8: "Is locked. Please unlock and try
> again". But with no clues _how_ to unlock. I searched the web for ages,
> but none of the 'solutions' I found made any difference.
> After I gave that up and tried to install Win8-pro, the installer said
> the partition had been "something (locked/reserved?) by the OEM", which
> presumably was my 'locked' problem.
> I just deleted the partition. After that I could install OK.
>
> What a pigs ear of a process.
> All those hours of messing about just for two applications that aren't
> on Linux and the occasional 'does my code work on Win8?" check.
>
>
> Gordon.
>
>
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