Vista Tutorial - Check Disk - chkdsk

You're welcome Dr. Torque.

Shawn

brink, btw, i just got another blue screen, and these are some words i remember from the message..
"..install/unistall issues.." , "tcpip.sys"..

last year i was getting blue screens on another, and finally the laptop didnt start, and dell said it's due to a harddrive problem, so i changed the hardrive and it was solved..

i dont know this time its b/c of the samething or not..
anyways, i got regcure and used it, 10 times in a row, b/c everytime i run it number of errors dcrease gradually, although it says all fixed.. it didnt go below 5 errors.

anyways, do you have any recommendations?
thanks.

My guess is that it may be related to the registry cleaner program Regcure. If it deletes registry values that it shouldn't, then it can cause all sorts of horrible problems. It is usually not a good idea to let these type of programs just delete whatever it finds without verifying the results first. The only way to be sure is to undo and restore everything the Regcure deleted from the registry.

Unless this program has a option to undo what it deleted, then you will need to do a System Restore using a restore point (if available) dated before all of the deletions made by Regcure. If not, then you may need to reinstall Vista to fix the problems.

Hi ya Brink,
I had posted in general that I had a blue screen come out of no-where, but my system restarted before I could read it..( need to change that!) so I thought I'd run chkdsk. I went through cmd prompt, chkdsk/f/r C:, of course since the system was using the C drive it asked if I would like to run at start up, I chose yes, restarted and went to bed. got up, my system was waiting for me to log on, through your tutorial sections I managed to find my log file, said found 0 bad sectors, looks as though everything is OK, but now.. I want to stop the chkdsk operation at start up. so far.. it seems I need to delete the registry entries for chkdsk? I could use some good step by step on this one. Thanks for any responses.

Hello Balydrnnnr,

You can do just Step Two in this tutorial to reset chkdsk to stop it from running at startup all of the time.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

shawn - i dont want to system restoreor reinstall vista. do you think over time this problem would decrease, like the regs deleted by regcure build themselves up in a way, or not?
thanks very much!

Dr. Torque,

Doing a System Restore is not reinstalling Vista. Instead it is just returning Vista to a previous restore point that you select is dated before this problem. Once registry files are deleted, they are gone unless you do something like a System Restore to restore them.

The only other option is to reinstall everything.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hey there Brink,
Thanks for the reply, I went in to regedit and was going to rewrite the string in the step you suggested, to my surprise, it was alread set as autocheck autochk*. I was under the impression that if you scheduled dskchk to run at start from cmd prompt, it would do so every start???.. ( was set in cmd as dskchk/f/r C: ) I'll restart tonight so if it goes into dskchk I can let it run.. I'll post back. Thanks for the reply!!!!

It should only set chkdsk to run only one time at startup, then reset after it has ran or been cancelled by default unless something goes wrong causing it to run at every startup.

Today for the first time since I bought this Laptop in June 2007, I successfully used and ran Check Disk [chkdsk], using Method One; Run Check Disk from within Vista, where I found this Tutorial very easy to understand, and the advice steps 1 to 10 simple to follow....yet another well presented Tutorial by Shawn.

I used Method One primarily because I have yet to gain any real confidence in negotiating my way through Command Prompt procedures, or in picking my way through Registry HKEY_ strings etc., and as I still find the alternative Methods a little too complex for me to get a grasp on things.

Setting up the chkdsk in Method One was a breeze, and after I had selected to run the event by clicking on the Schedule disk check button at Method One: Run Checkdisk from within Vista:Step 10, I just continued on to finish the process, and restarted the Laptop to run chkdsk at Startup.

The whole process of 5 stages took about one hour to complete and all went very well, without any hitches. The bonus of it all, is that all disk systems are clean....with not one reported problem, and at the conclusion, the Laptop started up as normal.

Needess to say, but I am very pleased with the outcome, and thank Shawn for yet another great resource.