Yes, but the O/P has said nothing about passwords or file encryption.
Plus, this happened during formatting when a power outage occurred, all
indications that the drive has been either thoroughly corrupted or has
become defective.
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"kword88" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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> i am pretty sure the drive is just locked. i had the same problem with
> my external drive, until i disabled the password protection. its a
> built-in security feature,to help protect your personal data. you have
> to install the software to disable it.
>
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> kword88