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re: Autochk looping - grrr.
Friday, January 12, 2007 at 9:17 am
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Posted by L. Benson (1 messages posted)


Thank you for this repair. I've been working on two machines that had the constant Autochk with bsod. I'm sure most of the people with Windows XP sp2 who had this problem were getting the following bsod. Session5_initialization_failed This is a poorly documented error by microsoft.


On Monday, February 24, 2003 at 9:39 am, Cal wrote:
>
>Before I begin, please let me say chkdsk.exe is a utility conceived in iniquity and
>born in sin. In other words - it is crap. This has been covered in other threads
>though, so I'm going to move on to. .
>
>Autochk.exe. My problem is that I scheduled a disk check using chkdsk and now autochk
>has put that little registry entry into my registry to check the disk for errors.
>
>
>
>HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\BootExecute
>
>
>After checking the disk, it reboots, and then upon re-booting tries to check the
>disk again. Hence, the looping referred to in the post title. Now, I know how to
>stop it from doing this - I can either delete autochk.exe, or remove the entries
>in the registry, but my question is WHAT is causing this looping? Why doesn't it
>just fix the drive and then boot into Windows XP?
>
>Also - when I run chkdsk from the command line I get a message that the drive is
>clean. When I run chkdsk /v /f
>I get a message that there are minor incosistencies. Considering the number of times
>that I've run chkdsk in the aforementioned loop, shouldn't it have cleared up all
>errors or do they re-occur upon re-booting? Crap crap crap, I say.
>thanks for your patience.


Written in response to:
Autochk looping - grrr. (Cal: Monday, February 24, 2003 at 9:39 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Autochk looping - grrr. (sand_danser: Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 12:48 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Autochk looping - grrr. (Cal: Mon, Feb 24, 2003, 9:39 am)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Mon, Feb 24, 2003, 11:30 am)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Cal: Mon, Feb 24, 2003, 5:22 pm)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 25, 2003, 12:12 pm)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Furdog: Tue, May 20, 2003, 5:37 pm)
*re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Cason: Tue, Jun 10, 2003, 8:16 am)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Dave: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 9:34 am)
*re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Dave: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 9:52 am)
*re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Jon: Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 9:21 am)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (PJ: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 8:57 am)
*re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Rance Johnson: Fri, Apr 23, 2004, 8:32 pm)
*re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Jim Abell: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 6:04 pm)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Eric Stacy: Wed, Oct 6, 2004, 1:20 pm)
*re: Autochk looping - grrr. (jckrbt: Thu, Apr 14, 2005, 6:30 am)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (L. Benson: Fri, Jan 12, 2007, 9:17 am)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (sand_danser: Sun, Mar 23, 2008, 12:48 pm)
-re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Gigel: Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 8:25 am)
*re: Autochk looping - grrr. (Gigel: Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 8:28 am)
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