Vista - Chkdsk will Not Run at Startup in Vista

Actually, you are correct, I doublechecked my permissions and (my mistake) I had not granted full control,...having corrected that.... then I went back and it replaced the file and I have already successfully run the chkdsk /f and solved a problem that has been going on for days. Thank you very much.

LOL 1604. It happens. I was starting to scratch my head to why it was still not letting you with full control.

I'm glad to hear that chkdsk ran for you now.

Shawn

Appreciate the help. Thx.

Your welcome 1604. Anytime.

Shawn

This worked for me too. I had tried every other method I could find on this forum and nothing was working! Thank you so much for posting RJCC!!

This fixed up my system good! I did have a headache though trying to move the new autochk.exe file over though. I hate just replacing a file without having a backup, so instead of just overriding it with the new one, I renamed the original one first then tried pasting in the new version. The system didn't let me copy the new one because it gave me some kind of error message that it was incompatible with my version of windows (don't remember the exact error). After wondering what was going wrong, I just made a backup copy of the original, then overwrote the original version of the file with the new one, and it worked fine. Its funny how it let me overwrite an existing file in that directory, but wouldn't let me add a new file with a filename that didn't already exist in the directory.

When I schedule dskchk and reboot I get the screen that says it's starting, but it immediately says disk checking was canceled. I've tried from safe mode and diagnostic startup, with no luck. I also tried system restore. It will run from the recovery tools if I boot from the installation disc, and reports no bad files. System file checker also found nothing. Could it still be a corrupted autochk.exe file?

Computer Dell Inspirion 1501 with Vista home premium SP1.

Hi Aquariusmoon, and welcome to Vista Forums.

When it boots up to run chkdsk, you have 10 seconds to press a key to cancel it. You might check to see if you may have a stuck key on the keyboard or something that is triggering this to cancel the chkdsk.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I checked and no keys seem to be stuck. I cleaned the keyboard thoroughly with canned air in case of a particle in there. This is a laptop, so I can't find a way to disable the keyboard, but it seems to be functioning fine.

Aquariusmoon,

See if you can run chkdsk /f using Option Three in METHOD TWO of this tutorial.

Check Disk - chkdsk

Hope this helps,
Shawn