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Ian Hoare
I hope somewone can help.
I have been experimenting with Truecrypt encrypted volumes on an unformatted
partition.
Under Win 98, TYrue crypt was able to unencrypt without problem. Once I
upgraded to XP (Pro) Truecrypt was still able to access and unencrypt the
volume as before.
Last night I upgraded to SP2, and now Truecrypt cannot gain access to this
partition. I get the following error message.
"Warning Device/partition already in use. Ignoring this can cause undesired
results incuding system instability. All applications that might be using
this partition should be closed before mounting this volume.
Continue with Mounting?"
On replying "yes" I get this message
Error cannot mount volume, Device/partition is already in use. Attempt to
mount without exclusive access failed as well."
Truecrypt mention this sort of message appearing in two places. a) when
trying to create a volume, and b) when trying to access it. They suggest
that the sort of programs that might place a lock on a partition could be an
antivirus or disc partitioning program. So I shut down my antivirus and
don't have partitioning s/w running. Truecrypt still can't access the
partition.
The other case is when TC tries to make a volume, they suggest right
clicking on my computer then doing manage/disk management/change drive
letter/paths when clicking on the unformatted partition and blanking out the
letter shown.
I tried that too. No success.
Clearly there's _something_ putting a lock on the partition, but what?
I have had a look at the running processes and there's nothing that stands
out as being a prime candidate, unless it's Logical Disk manager, however
experimentally disabling it had no effect.
So, all you gurus, out there. Any ideas about what's messing with a
partition that for all Windows ought to know, is completely blank?
I have been experimenting with Truecrypt encrypted volumes on an unformatted
partition.
Under Win 98, TYrue crypt was able to unencrypt without problem. Once I
upgraded to XP (Pro) Truecrypt was still able to access and unencrypt the
volume as before.
Last night I upgraded to SP2, and now Truecrypt cannot gain access to this
partition. I get the following error message.
"Warning Device/partition already in use. Ignoring this can cause undesired
results incuding system instability. All applications that might be using
this partition should be closed before mounting this volume.
Continue with Mounting?"
On replying "yes" I get this message
Error cannot mount volume, Device/partition is already in use. Attempt to
mount without exclusive access failed as well."
Truecrypt mention this sort of message appearing in two places. a) when
trying to create a volume, and b) when trying to access it. They suggest
that the sort of programs that might place a lock on a partition could be an
antivirus or disc partitioning program. So I shut down my antivirus and
don't have partitioning s/w running. Truecrypt still can't access the
partition.
The other case is when TC tries to make a volume, they suggest right
clicking on my computer then doing manage/disk management/change drive
letter/paths when clicking on the unformatted partition and blanking out the
letter shown.
I tried that too. No success.
Clearly there's _something_ putting a lock on the partition, but what?
I have had a look at the running processes and there's nothing that stands
out as being a prime candidate, unless it's Logical Disk manager, however
experimentally disabling it had no effect.
So, all you gurus, out there. Any ideas about what's messing with a
partition that for all Windows ought to know, is completely blank?