Can't Refresh - Drive Locked - Win8 Pro RTM

First off sorry for not putting a comment here originally the comment box doesnt rendered properly in Safari, just comes up with a progress bar...anyway at another PC Now with IE 8
Ok following are the steps I took to setup Win 8 Pro RTM
Created Windows 8 Pro RTM USB Boot image
Disks
Disk 0 SATA (Data drive docs and files)-  2 TB Seagate
Disk 1 SATA (OS, Apps, Software Installs) - 2 TB Seagate
Disk 2 OCZ Agility3 (Games) - 128 GB SSD
Disabled disk 0 and 2 to insure win 8 system partition created on Disk 1 - previously issue with Win 7
Installed OS - Everything booted up fine
Re-Enabled Disk 0 and Disk 2 - Everything fine
Installed VS2008 + SP, VS 2010 + SP, VS 2012
Installed SQL 2012 Developer
Enabled Win8 Hyper-V - troubles began -  couldn't update - after a couple reboots ended up with the Windows 8 blue logo - had to refresh
Refresh worked - However didn’t disable Disk 0 and Disk 2 for the Refresh
Installed Windows Media Centre - ended up paying for key as the free key didn't work - suspect possible issue with the feature activation on the Australian Windows Store
Installed Splastop Desktop windows 8
Installed Office 2010
Trusted the PC
Installed Hyper-V again - troubles again couldn't boot - same blue windows 8 logo screen – this time unable to Refresh repair.
Attempted restart from USB Boot image. I can get to repair screen however can’t move forward from this point as it says the
drive is locked.
 I’ve no idea how to unlock in Windows 8, I can probably do this from the command prompt, assuming its possible to unlock from there, just don’t know how to do it, which is what I need help with please.
At this stage if I can get Win 8 refreshed(without file loss) I plan is to copy my software files back to my Data Drive and then do a fresh install of Windows 7, which works well. To be honest little disappointed with the new Frankenstein
Win8 Classic/RT experience. Love the fact that Hyper-V is available in 8 (if it works) but might wait for SP1 and possibly a Start Button/Orb on the Desktop
Anyway any help in unlocking my drive would be greatly appreciate.
Cheers
Geoff

Awesome thanks Geoff for looking into this!  Sorry to hear it didn't fix your problem, pry won't fix mine either lol. 
I'm not as tech savy as you, would you mind telling what command prompts I need to enter to see my drive mappings and how to enable/disable them?
Hi Waka,
Let me see if I can explain. I’ll say right up front there are certainly going to people on this forum who understand this a much better than I do, so if I get something wrong hopefully one of them will jump in to explain a little better.
Essentially your Physical hard disk drives, I have three can be broken up by logical partitions. When you install Windows it creates a small logical partition called “System Reserved” this logical partition of drive space is hidden on your hard disk (you
can’t browse the files), but contains some of the files needed to boot windows and also some software utilities to try and fix things when they go wrong.
Let me say it’s certainly possible that your physical disk has errors, sometimes so bad that it’s a write off. If you look through that link I posted before the guy mentions doing a chkdsk (Check Disk utility), which is a good idea. He also goes on to mention
virus checking which could be another issue.
For me and possibly for you the drive was fine no errors, Windows Repair/Refresh couldn’t find the drive I installed Widows onto. At least it couldn’t find it the second time I attempted to Refresh and this could be your issue also
This is how I had things setup when I originally installed Win8
Basically I physically removed the drive cable to insure Windows could not see Disk 0 or Disk 2 (in grey). This means Windows has to install its hidden System Partition and Windows itself on the only drive available to it Disk 1. After installing Windows
I then reattached Disk 0 and Disk 2, all good.
Windows then assigns logical drive letters, to your logical partitions not the hidden partition. The drive you installed windows on becomes the C, so for me after attaching the two other drives I get: Disk 1 assigned “C:” Disk 0 assigned “D:” and Disk 2
assigned “E:”.
When I installed the Win 8 Hyper-V, and things started going wrong 
I had to use my Windows install disks (my case a USB Key) to “Repair” things I didn’t disable the drives as I’d done when I originally installed. This means when Repair utility runs it assigns logical drive letters Disk 1 assigned “D:” Disk 0 assigned
“C:” and Disk 2 assigned “E:” (0,1,2). For some reason the first time the repair utility fixed things for me it found the drive I’d installed Windows Disk 1, the second time it failed it couldn’t.
To fix my issue I disabled Drive 0 and 2 again and ran the repair this time the Repair utility defiantly looks at the correct drive I installed Windows on Disk 1 and fixes things up.
My guess is that in some cases people install Win8, then go buy and add a second hard disk to their PC. Disk 0, 1 and 2 assignments are set by the order the drive cables are connected to your hard disk, and can also be changed in some PC BIOS settings, I
think. So when things go wrong and the repair runs the first drive it sees isn’t the one with the System Partition or where Windows is installed. So if you do have other drives attached that you are you could physically drive cables to other drives (make sure
PC is OFF J) and then try the repair CD/USB.
As far as figuring out what is going on at the command line all I did was type drive letters and realised what was going on. There use to be a utility called FDISK
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B255867&x=17&y=15&wa=wsignin1.0 which would display the physical and logical settings, I’m not sure what command line you type to display this information in the recovery; I’d certainly like to
know.
Waka, sorry for a really long post mate, hopefully it’s not all totally wrong. So suggestions:
 run chkdsk at the command prompt and try the other suggestions on the link I previously posted. If you have added a second drive, or if you have more than one drive disconnect all but the one Win8 was installed on, and then run the Repair/Refresh
utility, this worked for me.
Geoff Fane

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