Vista - Chkdsk will Not Run at Startup in Vista

You and me both. I was about ready to pull my hair out - this laptop is only about a month old lol

I have followed the steps down through attempting to replace the autochk.exe file - at this point permission is asked for (after selecting Copy and replace) - I click to give permission and receive message "Try Again".

How do I authorize the system to perform this file copy.

FYI - I received the same message when I tried to rename the original autochk file.


Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

God Bless

You need to give yourself permissions - first take ownership of the file, then close properties, reopen properties, and give yourself "Full Control" permissions. If you do not do both of these steps in order, you will not be able to replace the files.

Full instructions for this are located in the original tutorial post (Click the link for "taking ownership".)

I've gone through downloading the Take Ownership patch, but when I right click on the desktop file, I don't find the "Take Ownership" option.

I know this is probably simple, but it's virtually Greek to me.

Thanks

I've only ever done it the manual way, through windows explorer.

Take Ownership of file

Do Method two, option two

Hi,
I run Vista Home Premium at level Service Pack 1 on a Dell Inspiron 537s x64 laptop. I too cannot get Check Disk to run after booting. Using MSCONFIG to set SAFE mode doesn't help and SFC runs clean. My Boot Execute registery entry is equal to "autocheck autochk *" before I invoke Check Disk from the Tools panel and "autocheck autochk /r\??\C:autocheck autochk *" afterwards. This is exactly what I see on my other Vista PC, where Check Disk runs every time. I went on to try to replace the AutoChk file. I first attempted to take ownership of the file --
takeown /F C:\Windows\System32\autochk.exe
icacls C:\Windows\System32\autochk.exe /grant Rachel:F.
I then downloaded the SP1 file and extracted autochk.exe. But when I went to cut and paste the new file or rename the old one, I got the message "You'll need to provide administrative permission to copy to this folder". I selected contine and then got the admin waring prompt "Windows needs your permission to continue". Again, I chose to continue, at which point, I got "Destination folder access denied".
I assume I'm doing something wrong with either takeown or icacls, but don't know what it is.
Thanks in advance,
s660117

Hello s660117, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Try the manual Method two, option two in the tutorial below instead to see if you have ownership and full permission of the autochk.exe file.

Take Ownership of file

Yes, option 2 worked fine and ChkDsk did run once I refreshed autochk.exe.
Thanks for your help,
s660117

You're welcome s660117. I'm happy to hear that you got it to run now.

Step Four
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NOTE: If the File version is blank or you have SP1 installed, then do step 6. If not, then do step 7.

6. For the 6.0.6002.18005 SP2 Version of autochk.exe -
NOTE: This is for the 32 bit and 64 bit Vista with SP1 and SP2 installed.

My file version is blank and I have SP1 installed. In the sfc scannow log it says it is version 6.0.6001.18000, the SP1 version. Please verify. You want me to install the SP2 version, even though I don't have SP2 installed?