re: Autochk looping - grrr.
Friday, January 12, 2007 at 9:17 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
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.
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- Autochk looping - grrr. (Cal: Monday, February 24, 2003 at 9:39 am)
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