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"Drive where windows is installed is locked"
so i ran into an issue where some of the default apps with windows stopped working. i'd had a strange crash/BSOD and i tried a lot of things to fix it - details are here: BSOD reboot loop while playing BF1 System Service Exception
i think the apps not working may have come from one of the fixes i tried to do with the restore points and other things with the windows installation usb i have. i hadnt noticed it till now because i've been using a different computer primarily for about the last two weeks. i came back and noticed my movies would not play through the default movie player, but all worked fine in VLC. i remembered something in a tutorial i'd found that had me turn off most of the system services, so i looked in msconfig and noticed the startup selection was checked to "selective startup" instead of "normal startup." so i changed it back to normal startup and rebooted and now the computer won't boot. it just gets to a solid color screen with the spinning loading circles and sits there. i can get into safe mode, and i tried changing it back but it didnt work.
i booted from the windows installation USB this morning and was going to reset the computer and just save my files, but when i selected that, it told me "The drive where windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again."
not sure what this is talking about or how to fix it. any help is greatly appreciated!