Cannot run Checkdisk

gamblingman

gamblingman

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I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 with XP SP3. I am fully updated on all programs and OS, and I am not infected with anything.

I had problem today, and I have been trying very hard to find a solution to it. I went to do a "spring cleaning" and one of the things I needed to do is run Checkdisk before defragmenting. Everything seemed ok, I went to C: drive and ok'ed the Checkdisk utility, and it prompted me to restart to run the utility. No problem, I've done it many times before on this machine and on many other peoples computers.

I restarted, and the loading went right from the bootup to loading windows, and then to my user account log in screen. It never ran the checkdisk scan.

I have been looking up information on this nearly all day. I know that I could run the utility from a restore/repair disk, but being a Dell I dont have those disks. And I have had a hell of a time trying to find a way to get them. I also have Acronis but I am not sure if using that program to make a repair disk to fix this will work, since its a Dell.

Ugh, so Ive been trying to find a reason checkdisk may not be working. From what I can tell, it may be a bad file or registry value. But I am unsure where to look or even what I would change anything to for the utility to work.

I have also tried the CMD entries for starting the checkdisk utility such as "chkdsk c: /f /r" to no avail.

I have the Samsung HM250JI 225GB hard drive. I havent had any problems with it that I can remember, and I just ran the F2 diagnostic utility. The diagnostic ran fine and didnt find anything wrong hardware wise.

Any thoughts on this?
 
Try by registry:
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/
double click on ""BootExecute"
write "autocheck autochk /p \??\C:" without the quotes
reboot the machine and see if he checks the disk.
Hope that helps
 
no cigar

Ok well the BootExecute entry is missing. Dont ask me how or why its gone, its annoying for sure! I cant imagine how it would just disappear, and there isn't much about this problem out there.

However, it seems that a similar problem plagued win 2000 and some users of Non-Windows HDD defrag programs. I got this info from one site, and it seem to be the best course of action. But I would like to hear from more people on this before I mess with adding this to the registry. And yes I know to backup the registry before doing anything.

Here is what I found:
"To create the registry value inside session manager registry key, right click on an empty space, then click to make a new multi-string value , name it "BootExecute" and set the value for it as "autocheck autochk *" . Close your registry editor."

Then I should be able to use CheckDisk from HDD/C: properties, tools, CheckDisk. Am I correct in thinking this?
 
Go in the following location:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\

Now check there do you have the files called "autochk.exe" and "chkdsk.exe".If you don't then none of the proceedures won't help since Windows operating system NEEDS those files...

Anyway just check and tell me if you have them.If you do,they might be damaged so replace them with the new ones either by repairing your OS,(what you cant do since you said that you do not have the disk) or simply by taking them from some other computer which runs the SAME OS and has the SAME SERVICE PACK version installed and then copy them on the USB stick and then copy them on your computer on which that check disk utility wont work by USING THE LINUX UBUNTU,NOT THROUGH WINDOWS SINCE WINDOWS OS AUTOMATICALLY REPLACES IT BY CREATING THE SAME ONE AGAIN EVEN IF IT HAS THE SAME NAME!




Cheers!
 
huh?

Dude, what on earth are you talking about. I never mentioned Linux or Ubuntu and I am not about to use them for a repair operation.

AND FONTS THAT ARE IN CAPS ARE VERY HARD TO READ
 
gamblingman said:
Dude, what on earth are you talking about. I never mentioned Linux or Ubuntu and I am not about to use them for a repair operation.

AND FONTS THAT ARE IN CAPS ARE VERY HARD TO READ
Click to expand...

Ahh........I wasnt talking about the REPAIR.Read my post once again... -_-
 
not

Yeah no, I still don't understand your post. It doesnt make any sense to me. Sorry dude.

In any case I am going to try to get Dell to send me a repair disk, or tell me where to go on their site to download one to a disk.
 
They will probably send you the PRODUCT RECOVERY disk which will reinstall the entire OS and the drivers and ALSO delete ALL your data!Or maybe they will just send you the disk with normal Windows OS on it...
In any case be sure NOT to take the PRODUCT RECOVERY disk,unless if you are willing to lose all the data on your HDD...
 
mind

Good to keep in mind. I will definitely do a fresh backup of my data to my external before I do anything. Just in case!

I got to thinking about it, its been working well for two years. So the OS probably a little worn down, I'll probably just repair it for now. But in the coming months I am hoping to get 7 ultimate. I've seen lots of stuff about it, and I like what I have seen.
 
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