Vista - Chkdsk will Not Run at Startup in Vista

Many thanks, Shawn. After several hours working on my Toshiba Satellite P205D w/ Vista Home Premium SP1, I found the correct sequence of steps. Just a couple of notes for others with this configuration.

The Boot Execute data kept reverting to the value autocheck autochk /p \??\C: after each reboot, so I had to change it back again to autocheck autochk * when I tried the "non-SP1" version of autochk.exe (.16386) and, voila, it worked!

I guess my configuration is one of the exceptions to the SP1 rule. Thanks again, Harvey

You're welcome Harvey. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted despite the SP1 issue.

That reminds me that I needed to update this to include the SP2 version as well.

Shawn

Thank you for sharing that. It does work. My question is why does it happen as this is about the third time i've used this method? Also, Vista is not seeing one of my external HDD's that it had before. It will come up and ask to format it, which i loathe doing, cuz it's got most of my music files, etc on it. So what i'm asking is is it the HDD / VISTA not playing nicely or is the drive boot sector jacked? Its an acomada 500 gig external. And is there any way if the boot sector is bad that i can either retrieve or wipe it clean. It wont let me scan it, as it either freezes dear VISTA or sez fomat and it wont. Thanks for the help

Hello Lewis,

Not sure exactly what may be causing it, but backing up your music and formating it from within Vista will hopefully help.

I've been fiddling with this all morning, finally got the disk check to run. You might consider adding the steps described in the last reply to the following to your tutorial, as it's what finally fixed my problem and got disk check to run

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PhoenixHawke,

Could you post back the permalink (top right corned in post) for that individual post with the solution that worked for you? (right click, copy shortcut, paste) I'm unclear if it is the last post in the thread or in the page for the link you posted.

Sure

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~Brian

Thank you Brian. It has been added as STEP ONE.

Haha, awesome. Thanks for having this up here though - Even though what you initially had posted didn't solve my particular variation of this problem, it brought enough people with similar problems together that I was able to track down something that worked. Much appreciated.

Oh, and now FireFox isn't locking up my system and forcing me to do a hard-shutdown to recover anymore!

That's great news. I'm happy to hear everything seems to be sorted out now for you.