Vista - Chkdsk will Not Run at Startup in Vista

Phew, I started having the same problems a week ago. My backup wouldn't run, finally decided to see whey. Corrupt files.

Same problesm as the others, chkdsk will not run at startup, can't run anything else because it is flagged dirty. Tried from the cmd prompt was promptly told that my account (in the admin group) needed elevated priviledges.

Tried the Admin account, it couldn't find the program to run at all.

Booted in the safe mode and ran chkdsk without any switches. Corrupt files are there. I have read through this thread earmarked it and sent it to myself so i can try some of the suggestions here.

Vista home premium 32 bit (bought the laptop because it was 64 bit and made the false assumption the OS would be too!)

Hi Mccljp,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

When it told you that the CMD prompt needed to be elevated, it just meant that you needed to right click on the CMD prompt shortcut and click Run as administrator first.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank you Shawn, I followed the instructions, did the two regedits manually download the autocheck file, took possession of the original file and tried to move it over.....

That didn't work so I renamed the original and then copied the new file to it's place, deleted the old one and rebooted. Check disk ran What a PITA, sure am glad we run XP at work, and I don't have to manage 500 vista machines.

I am now running a full backup just incase.

Thanks again,
John

John,

I'm glad to hear that you got it chkdsk running again.

Thank you for the feedback,
Shawn

I have the same issue - chkdsk will not run on boot.
I have been following the instructions listed in this thread but my main problem is how to get the autochk file copied into my windows\system32 folder. No matter what I try it will not allow me to copy it there - those d*@n secuirty privilege messages! Even if I login as administrator I still can't.

Any advice on this matter? I truly would like to get my ckhdsk working again.

btw, I too think that this is one sorry OS - XP is way better and more stable. Though I do like the preceived security features of vista, it is heck to deal with when troubles arise.

thanks.

Hi Robishawr,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

Did you take ownership of the old autochk.exe file first in STEP TWO step 2? It will not allow you to unless you did.

If you have, then you can enable the built-in Administrator account and try this tutorial while logged on to that account instead. It has full rights like in XP. This tutorial will show you how to enable it.

Administrator Account

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I have tried all the steps, but at the very last step, even though I have taken ownership of autochk.exe (and ownership confirmation message OK) and I am an administrator, the final step of Copy and Replace autochk.exe fails. It says permission required..this is after it has already confirmed the UAC as administrator. It also will not let me rename the old file. What do I need to do?

Hi 1604,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

After you have taken ownership of the original autochk.exe file, did you also give your user account Full control?

Take Ownership of file

Shawn

Yes, I have full control, and I also tried doing it with the hidden administrator account....same problem.

Ok 1604.

If it is not letting you to replace the old one, then something usually has not been granted permission or control.

See if booting into Safe Mode and deleting the original autochk.exe file first, then copy the new one it will allow you to.