Drive where Windows is installed is locked

[Pfhecky]

Hello all,

I have gotten into a mess over the past couple days where my computer is stuck in a boot loop, I've created a boot media from a usb drive with Windows 10 ISO the only problem is when I try to reset my pc it gives an error saying my hdd is locked, doing sfc/scannow in the cmd option says "Windows resource protection could not perform the requested operation" please help I've been stumped for days!

 

[Rooster__]

Is it possibly a dieing hard drive? have you dropped it or is it old and making whirring sounds? try to install windows on a backup drive and remove that as a variable.

 

[Pfhecky]

Back story is, brought it home from a LAN perfectly fine and once I plugged it in from home I turned on the computer and it showed as if it woke up from sleep mode ( I could see steam friends list and even said I was online even though it I unplugged it) the rest was black so I restarted. Got an error saying critical service failed, then the computer was infinitely loading, so I got it into repair mode. From repair mode I tried to reset the drive and it gave me an error saying it couldn't. The computer then was stuck boot looping until it is where it is now. No drops on the way home.

 

[Rooster__]

Back story is, brought it home from a LAN perfectly fine and once I plugged it in from home I turned on the computer and it showed as if it woke up from sleep mode ( I could see steam friends list and even said I was online even though it I unplugged it) the rest was black so I restarted. Got an error saying critical service failed, then the computer was infinitely loading, so I got it into repair mode. From repair mode I tried to reset the drive and it gave me an error saying it couldn't. The computer then was stuck boot looping until it is where it is now. No drops on the way home.

That does sound to me like a failing drive, try replacing it and looking to see if that helps the issue, then you can see if it is down to the drive or another component

 

[Pfhecky]

Do you mean unplugging it? The drive in Question has Windows on it, I've unplugged it before and it asks for a bootable drive or do you mean just launching it with the usb iso while the drive is unplugged? EDIT: keep in mind I have more than 1 drive