Hi,
I came back today and found my local C disk locked and I suspect it was my brother who had done so but all hes done is play coy with me. I suspect he downloaded a virus but maybe he could have done it on purpose because he was upset at me for playing counter-strike. I have no idea how to unlock it and I have activated my built in admin account - all my other accounts are admin - and yet I can't seem to unlock the disk. The disk says no one owns it and I can't use my Acer Recovery Manager to reinstall Windows 8 because it says Hard Drive Configuration is not set to default. Also, I have access to almost all admin tools like cmd, msconfig, etc. except the recovery software for Windows 8. I have already tried safe mode and using system restore. Is there any way to reinstall windows 8 without access to recovery tools? Should I just revert back to the dreadful Windows Vista? Hopefully I didn't waste 1000 dollars on a laptop just to have it be locked and bricked.
Also if you're reading this and you have a brother, lock your HDD in BIOS so they can't f*ck up your computer. I have done so and so should you.
I came back today and found my local C disk locked and I suspect it was my brother who had done so but all hes done is play coy with me. I suspect he downloaded a virus but maybe he could have done it on purpose because he was upset at me for playing counter-strike. I have no idea how to unlock it and I have activated my built in admin account - all my other accounts are admin - and yet I can't seem to unlock the disk. The disk says no one owns it and I can't use my Acer Recovery Manager to reinstall Windows 8 because it says Hard Drive Configuration is not set to default. Also, I have access to almost all admin tools like cmd, msconfig, etc. except the recovery software for Windows 8. I have already tried safe mode and using system restore. Is there any way to reinstall windows 8 without access to recovery tools? Should I just revert back to the dreadful Windows Vista? Hopefully I didn't waste 1000 dollars on a laptop just to have it be locked and bricked.
Also if you're reading this and you have a brother, lock your HDD in BIOS so they can't f*ck up your computer. I have done so and so should you.