Matt Pessolano
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chkdsk runs continously on windows 2000 then reboots
i have a system that runs windows 2000 that keeps running chkdsk on startup. i cant cancel, i tried last known good confg, safe mode, everything. it just runs chkdsk then reboots and runs it again. i ran some diagnostics on the hard drive and the short tests failed but the long tests passed. any info to get me past this point would be great.
Try booting from a W2K CD and running chkdsk /p from the Recovery Console.
I know how to do this to stop to keep running at start up.. here is... Start > Run regedt32 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
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im sure it would help but i cant get into windows
f8 at startup then safe mode
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i have tried that. i cant get into safe mode it just hangs when the drivers are being loaded
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It definitely sounds like the drive is dying.
Boot from a CD with the Disk Vendor diagnostics and check to see if the drive is OK.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm Drive Fitness Test
http://www.seagate.com/maxtor/ Maxtor & Quantum
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/support/hard-drives/software_utilities.html#diagnostic Fujitsu
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm Samsung
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/
Seagate
http://support.wdc.com/download/#diagutils Western Digital
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm IBM & Hitachi DFT
you can also boot from a knoppix cd, to be sure the hard is still ok :
http://www.knoppix.net/get.php
UBCD bootable CD
http://www.ubcd4win.com
I hope this helps !
Boot from a CD with the Disk Vendor diagnostics and check to see if the drive is OK.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm Drive Fitness Test
http://www.seagate.com/maxtor/ Maxtor & Quantum
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/support/hard-drives/software_utilities.html#diagnostic Fujitsu
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm Samsung
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/
Seagate
http://support.wdc.com/download/#diagutils Western Digital
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm IBM & Hitachi DFT
you can also boot from a knoppix cd, to be sure the hard is still ok :
http://www.knoppix.net/get.php
UBCD bootable CD
http://www.ubcd4win.com
I hope this helps !
something in back of mind is asking is it a western digital disk
That can be a disk problem. You can try to backup all data on other HDD if you have any data on it. If is a workstation then reformat and reinstall. If is an server change the disk, restore last backup.
Dan