For the users of Win 7 Ultimate or Enterprise or Win 8, they can use BitLocker to lock hard drive. But for people on other OSes, they can only lock the hard drive with 3rd party software such as Kakasoft Advanced Folder Encryption.
Press options then press lock? If you are using Enterprise or Ultimate Vista, Win7 or Win 8, you can find Bitlocker feature in control panel, this is a totally free built-in feature for hard drive protection. If you are running other operating systems, you can try another method - using third party software to lock hard drive. For example, TrueCrypt and Kakasoft Advanced Folder Encryption are both good programs that can lock hard drive and encrypt files/folders in computer and flash drive.
Immediately replace it with a hard drive that does not randomly lock up.
You have a break fault. You need to get it fixed it is dangerous and ILLEGAL to drive with defective breaks.
Since you are using Win 7, you can encrypt entire hard drive with BitLocker. Search "BitLocker" on google, you can get many how-tos about encrypting drive. If you don't want to encrypt the drive or you are afraid you will lose all content in drive when forgetting the password, you can also use third party software such as Kakasoft Advanced Folder Encryption to lock and hide drive with password.
You can use BitLocker to lock your drive, or you can use 3rd party software such as TrueCrypt, Kakasoft Advanced Folder Encryption to lock the pendrive.
There is a special lock nut, inside the final drive that has to be removed. This requires a special tool that is very hard to find.
It means that you are currently using a file or files on the hard drive you are trying to format. If you are trying to format your primary drive you will need to boot to a boot disk - not the C: drive. For most versions of windows you will will need to make the boot disk(s) (an option under My Computer) and boot to those disks rather than your hard drive.
a hard drive failure is when your hard drive stops working...
a hard drive is called "disque dur" in French.
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If the Hard drive is IDE (40 pins on the back) you would configure the primary hard drive as Master and secondary hard drive as Slave using the jumpers on the back of the hard drive.