We ran into the same problem. 1) Just having an Explorer window open to that drive is enough to cause the "locked" message.
2) Remote users accessing that drive via Explorer across a network connection can cause it. 3) Even with all Windows closed, we sometimes couldn't find whatever was causing the "locked" message. In those cases, we found that a quick format of the drive cleared it. With a quick format you get a prompt with approximately the same message, but you get the option to go ahead and format anyway. That cleared it. (And the image restore is going to wipe out the drive anyway). Hope that helps. Wanda Prather "I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O" -(me) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ackerman, David Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Image Restore I'm new to TSM and I'm attempting to do an image restore on a Windows 2K Server. When I click the restore button in TSM, I receive the error "ANS1287E Volume can not be locked." Does anyone know how to resolve this? I know if anything is open on this drive you would receive this message but nothing is running on this drive. I'm not restoring a system drive but rather a drive with just applications. If no files on the drive to be restored can be in use than how would you restore a system drive, via a boot disk? Sorry if these are dumb questions but again I'm new this. Thanks Dave Ackerman EDI Analyst Sharp Electronics 201-529-6388