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Chkdsk will not run at startup, no recovery cd's available

I have tried everyining and nothing is working to get chkdsk to run at startup. And I do not have the recovery cd's available to run from there.

Please help!!

Thank you!

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davebuhl

What I've found is that the autochk.exe in Vista is bad bad bad. Autochk is the app that is supposed to automatically check to see if the chkdsk needs to run. For some reason, it won't run chkdsk at startup, even if you mark the disk as dirty. Here's what I've done to solve the problem. First, download the attached file and rename it to autochk.exe (can't attache exe files)

Then start a command prompt with elevated credentials (Start - All Programs - Accessories - Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as Administrator).
Type the following two commands to change the security settings on the current autochk.exe file

takeown /f c:\windows\system32\autochk.exe
icacls c:\windows\system32\autochk.exe /grant Users:(F)

Copy the autochk.exe file you download into c:\windows\system32. This "fixes" it so chkdsk will run in the future if necessary.

FYI, this is actually the XP SP2 version of autochk.
autochk.doc

LeeTutor

cas_three, any feedback?

Carrie Miles

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This did not work, nothing is working to get checkdsk to run at startup.

LeeTutor

"This did not work" doesn't tell us much. Did you try making the recovery CD I gave a link for above? How did you burn the CD, if you downloaded the file? What happened when you tried to boot from it?