re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Monday, March 22, 2004 at 9:32 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob Smith
(1 messages posted)
No. Bootex.log is a file created by chkdsk.exe when it is run; its results are rolled
into the main log after the system finished booting. If chkdsk.exe is interrupted,
bootex.log can become corrupted. When chkdsk.exe runs again, it tries to write to
bootex.log, which is, unfortunately, now corrupt. It doesn't know this until after
the check; so even though it was deleted by chkdsk.exe, it was written to in the
mean time and is therefore still corrupt. The fix is to run under the Recovery console
by either booting from the Windows XP CD or running \i386\winnt32.exe on the Windows
XP CD with the argument /cmdcons. When in the console, run chkdsk.exe /p to fix the
file. Then type del c:\bootex.log to remove the offending file. Reboot, and all is
taken care of.
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