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re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 4:04 pm Posted by bill (383 messages posted) What preceeded the problem or did it just come out of the blue? I would boot from the cd and try to repair the installation. Did you try holding down F8 and select "last known good"? On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 4:00 pm, BPM wrote: >Whenever I start my computer, I get this error: > >xmnt2001 program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK >autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK > >Then the screen blinks, and then I get this: > >STOP: C000021a {Fatal System Error} >The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a >status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000). >The system has been shut down. > >I'm typing this from another computer, BTW. Any idea as to how t >o fix this? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 7:11 pm Posted by xpadvisor (847 messages posted) Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q311562 "An Unexpected Error (768) Occurred at Line 5118@ind:Xp\Client\Boot\Setup\Setup.c" Error Message During Windows XP Setup The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP Professional This seems to apply to the Goback program good luck On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 4:00 pm, BPM wrote: >Whenever I start my computer, I get this error: > >xmnt2001 program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK >autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK > >Then the screen blinks, and then I get this: > >STOP: C000021a {Fatal System Error} >The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a >status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000). >The system has been shut down. > >I'm typing this from another computer, BTW. Any idea as to how t >o fix this? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Friday, July 26, 2002 at 11:16 am Posted by BPM (2 messages posted) Well, this problem occurred after I split up my hard drive into two partitions (so I could install a 2nd OS). Yes, I did use PartitionMagic7. And I know about the installation problem with the xmnt2001.exe. But, I'm getting that solved (possibly). But, I still need a solution for the autochk.exe problem. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Friday, October 4, 2002 at 4:42 pm Posted by David Caro (1 messages posted) I had the same problem. To fix it you have to use a third party boot loader - eg., Bootmagic. On Friday, July 26, 2002 at 11:16 am, BPM wrote: >Well, this problem occurred after I split up my hard drive into two partitions (so >I could install a 2nd OS). >Yes, I did use PartitionMagic7. And I know about the installation problem with the >xmnt2001.exe. But, I'm getting that solved (possibly). >But, I still need a solution for the autochk.exe problem. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 10:23 am Posted by brother (1 messages posted) I tried to install Linux with Grub on the second partition. After I set Grubs partition (2) as active I received this error - xp doesn't start at all. With PMagic7 I set first Partition as active and unhidden. XP starts but I have to find a way with grub... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:38 pm Posted by enrique (1 messages posted) well there's some good news and some bad news.... the good news is all your files and everything are most likely still there. the bad news is your partition is probably hidden now and the only way to unhide it is to reinstall windows from scratch. at least thats what happened to me with this problem. good luck On Friday, October 4, 2002 at 4:42 pm, David Caro wrote: >I had the same problem. To fix it you have to use a third party boot loader - eg., >Bootmagic. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Friday, February 7, 2003 at 6:59 pm Posted by tatzj (1 messages posted) I could solve the problem correctly. To make the WinXP partition unhidden, you can use fdisk command from Linux. Linux fdisk can change the partition label, e.g. from hidden NTFS to (unhidden) NTFS. The operation can be done with some Linux boot FD. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Friday, February 21, 2003 at 1:05 pm Posted by Frank (1 messages posted) I had the same problem, if your trying to dual boot with Linux it hides your NTFS partition with your Windows XP on it. As part of the boot process chkdsk calls for autochk.exe and because your partition is hidden it can't find it and gives you the error message. You can either use a Linux Boot Disk if you are comfortable with Linux or you can do what I did and use partition magic 8 and boot from the CD run partition magic and unhide you partition. You might have to run the Recovery Console in XP to recreate your MBR and boot sector etc [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Friday, February 28, 2003 at 5:35 pm Posted by sanlihe (1 messages posted) The hidden Windows partition is easy to fix. Just run 'grub' from /boot, provided you have installed this partition. type: unhide (hd0,0) If you're not sure the device name required by 'unhide', check /boot/grub/grub.conf Restart and Windows will boot. On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 1:05 pm, Frank wrote: >I had the same problem, if your trying to dual boot with Linux it hides your NTFS >partition with your Windows XP on it. >As part of the boot process chkdsk calls for autochk.exe and because your partition >is hidden it can't find it and gives you the error message. > >You can either use a Linux Boot Disk if you are comfortable with Linux or you can >do what I did and use partition magic 8 and boot from the CD run partition magic >and unhide you partition. You might have to run the Recovery Console in XP to recreate >your MBR and boot sector etc [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Friday, February 28, 2003 at 10:04 pm Posted by Maggot (1 messages posted) Sanlihe, I suspect your solution is only for Linux, but I hope you'll forgive my ability restricted to DOS & windows. I run WinXP-h on a homebrew i850 overclocked P4-2.0A. After installing a new HDD -- the estimable WD600JB, (cloned it from a Barracuda-iv)-- I decided to resize partitions and place page file off of primary. I used PM7. I can forgive that *none* of the changes I thought I'd implemented with PM7 appeared after reboot, but now I too am greeted with error "xmnt2001 program not found... skipping autocheck" just prior to WinXP-h completing its loading. WinXP seems to be fine aside from this 5 second message on cold or warm boots. I made PM rescue floppys (as well as a system Restore point ) prior to the PM 7 activity. Please advise: ought I to use the Rescue Floppies, or Sys Restore, or some other remedy? Thank you! On Friday, February 28, 2003 at 5:35 pm, sanlihe wrote: >The hidden Windows partition is easy to fix. >Just run 'grub' from /boot, provided you have installed >this partition. >type: unhide (hd0,0) >If you're not sure the device name required by 'unhide', >check /boot/grub/grub.conf > >Restart and Windows will boot. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 9:07 pm Posted by Ed Doolittle (1 messages posted) I fixed this problem using (c)fdisk under Linux. All I had to do was boot from a Linux CD-ROM, start cfdisk, and change the type of the WinXP file system from 0x17 (Hidden HPFS/NTFS) to 0x7 (HPFS/NTFS). On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 4:00 pm, BPM wrote: >Whenever I start my computer, I get this error: > >xmnt2001 program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK >autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK > >Then the screen blinks, and then I get this: > >STOP: C000021a {Fatal System Error} >The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a >status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000). >The system has been shut down. > >I'm typing this from another computer, BTW. Any idea as to how t >o fix this? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 10:31 am Posted by Mike Gruich (1 messages posted) I have also seen this, recently with new XP updates that hit my office. Several people shut down the auto update during the install and were left with the same error. Could not log in, admin password bad, last known good did not work, and no "safe mode" Here is the fix! Get your XP CD and boot from it Do not go into recovery console, choose "Set Up" Hit F8 (only after reading all the mumbo jumbo!) Choose Repair, "R" WindowsXP will then copy the installation files to your Hard Drive, whole thing takes about 45 minutes or so. It runs similar to SYSPREP, you will need to put a CD KEY in, but all settings should remain in tact. If you are on a domain, don't choose it from the setup. Wait until after (it should retain this anyway, you might not have to put this in). The only problem I found was that my ADMIN TOOLS needed to be reinstalled for Active Directory. Let me know if this helps! Mike On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 4:00 pm, BPM wrote: >Whenever I start my computer, I get this error: > >xmnt2001 program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK >autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK > >Then the screen blinks, and then I get this: > >STOP: C000021a {Fatal System Error} >The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a >status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000). >The system has been shut down. > >I'm typing this from another computer, BTW. Any idea as to how t >o fix this? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Friday, March 7, 2003 at 7:53 pm Posted by Sean (1 messages posted) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Activating HD0 with Grub fixed my problem. Thank god for Google searches..LOL... Sean On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 10:31 am, Mike Gruich wrote: >I have also seen this, recently with new XP updates that hit my office. Several people >shut down the auto update during the install and were left with the same error. > >Could not log in, admin password bad, last known good did not work, and no "safe >mode" > >Here is the fix! > >Get your XP CD and boot from it >Do not go into recovery console, choose "Set Up" >Hit F8 (only after reading all the mumbo jumbo!) >Choose Repair, "R" > >WindowsXP will then copy the installation files to your Hard Drive, whole thing takes >about 45 minutes or so. > >It runs similar to SYSPREP, you will need to put a CD KEY in, but all settings should >remain in tact. If you are on a domain, don't choose it from the setup. Wait until >after (it should retain this anyway, you might not have to put this in). > >The only problem I found was that my ADMIN TOOLS needed to be reinstalled for Active >Directory. > >Let me know if this helps! > > >Mike > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Saturday, March 8, 2003 at 3:25 pm Posted by praktikal (5 messages posted) I have the same problem with Linux and XP. Redhat boots, XP didn't boot until I put a space in chainloader *space* +1. Now it gives me that error. I will try everything said here and will let people know. What is an alternative to a win xp disk? I don't have mine at the moment. Mike how did you activate HD0? Thanks On Friday, March 7, 2003 at 7:53 pm, Sean wrote: >THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Activating HD0 with Grub fixed my problem. Thank >god for Google searches..LOL... > >Sean > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 5:27 pm Posted by olibear (1 messages posted) A ZILLION THANK YOUS! i loaded red hat 8 and everytinbg was fine until i decided i wated to see my winXP again. thanks to a google search and your post...i am back in action! On Friday, February 28, 2003 at 5:35 pm, sanlihe wrote: >The hidden Windows partition is easy to fix. >Just run 'grub' from /boot, provided you have installed >this partition. >type: unhide (hd0,0) >If you're not sure the device name required by 'unhide', >check /boot/grub/grub.conf > >Restart and Windows will boot. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Monday, March 17, 2003 at 11:25 am Posted by BigTimMN (1 messages posted) Ok, I have a similar problem to this, and have reinstalled windows many times, and replaced many hardware items. I get the "C000021a {Fatal System Error}" I dont have the wording down but i do have the #'s (0xc0000005 (0x00000000 0x00000000) I have done many clean installs, but i still get this problem... I have switched HD's, Motherboards, Ram, new Heatsink/Fan (lowered temps by 10 degrees), new drive cables, still the same issue, any ideas? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 9:30 am Posted by Bob Brennan (2 messages posted) I have a similar problem with XP Pro. When useing Power Quest Drive Image 2002 and Partion Magic 8. Can create an image of XP Pro. But when restoring, the image it boots to the XP splash screeen and lingers a bit longer than normal and then switches to a blue screen withe message: Autochk program not found skipping AUTOCHECK Lingers for a moment then switches to a darker blue screen with the following message: STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down I have persued this matter with both Microsoft and PowerQuest. PQ had me run a debug program and ship my image disks to them. Results inconclusive. MS seems to think it is a hardware issue. Although I prefer PQ Drive Image I have bought and am useing Norton Ghost for system backup images. No problems with Norton Ghost, can create and restore images at will. Bear in mind please, other than what is mentioned above, my XP Pro functions perfectly. Can make clean installs with perfect boot cycles. Also, I run Win 2000 Pro on a seperate partition on this same computer and encounter non of the above with w2K Pro. On Monday, March 17, 2003 at 11:25 am, BigTimMN wrote: > >Ok, I have a similar problem to this, and have reinstalled windows many times, and >replaced many hardware items. > >I get the "C000021a {Fatal System Error}" > >I dont have the wording down but i do have the #'s >(0xc0000005 (0x00000000 0x00000000) > >I have done many clean installs, but i still get this problem... I have switched >HD's, Motherboards, Ram, new Heatsink/Fan (lowered temps by 10 degrees), new drive >cables, still the same issue, any ideas? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:06 am Posted by Solean (1 messages posted) Easy. Get Zboot and fix whatever problems you have. Easy peasy lemon squeezy..... Dammit... my grade 5 teacher is affecting me again... after all these years.... On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 9:30 am, Bob Brennan wrote: >I have a similar problem with XP Pro. When useing Power Quest Drive Image 2002 and >Partion Magic 8. Can create an image of XP Pro. But when restoring, the image it >boots to the XP splash screeen and lingers a bit longer than normal and then switches >to a blue screen withe message: Autochk program not found skipping AUTOCHECK > >Lingers for a moment then switches to a darker blue screen with the following message: > >STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} >The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly >with a status of >0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000). >The system has been shut down > >I have persued this matter with both Microsoft and PowerQuest. > >PQ had me run a debug program and ship my image disks to them. Results inconclusive. > >MS seems to think it is a hardware issue. > >Although I prefer PQ Drive Image I have bought and am useing Norton Ghost for system >backup images. > >No problems with Norton Ghost, can create and restore images at will. > >Bear in mind please, other than what is mentioned above, my XP Pro functions perfectly. >Can make clean installs with perfect boot cycles. > >Also, I run Win 2000 Pro on a seperate partition on this same computer and encounter >non of the above with w2K Pro. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 8:59 am Posted by WHO (56 messages posted) >I fixed this problem using (c)fdisk under Linux. All I had to do was boot from a >Linux CD-ROM, start cfdisk, and change the type of the WinXP file system from 0x17 >(Hidden HPFS/NTFS) to 0x7 (HPFS/NTFS). Great! This fixed my problem to! I booted using the RedHat 7.3 Boot CD and chose to use fdisk. Pressed 't', ,the option to change partition types then 1(XP was my first partition). Then typed in 7 for HPFS/NTPS [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Monday, March 24, 2003 at 2:59 pm Posted by Drea (1 messages posted) Well this happened for me in Win2K after I gave someone full rights to his c drive. I didn't split any partitions nor did I install new HW (I did install new software, though). What do you think will work for me besides reinstalling??? any thoughts? On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:06 am, Solean wrote: > >Easy. Get Zboot and fix whatever problems you have. Easy peasy lemon squeezy..... >Dammit... my grade 5 teacher is affecting me again... after all these years.... > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Monday, March 24, 2003 at 11:17 pm Posted by JoMama (1 messages posted) Ed! Thank you! I was freaking out because I put a RH8.0 partition on my laptop. Got the above errors. Had no backups, of course. I ran the RH setup disk, went to fdisk, pressed M, then T, chose my windows partition, and changed it to 07. I am back in action. Thanks for saving my heart attack. Jm On Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 9:07 pm, Ed Doolittle wrote: >I fixed this problem using (c)fdisk under Linux. All I had to do was boot from a >Linux CD-ROM, start cfdisk, and change the type of the WinXP file system from 0x17 >(Hidden HPFS/NTFS) to 0x7 (HPFS/NTFS). > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 12:44 am Posted by Mike (5 messages posted) Just wanted to say I could kiss you, and that patience truly is a virtue!!! That command line is so simple and I've been working at this problem for hours. But all that time doesn't matter now that my hd is back. Thanks guys!!! Thanks a lot!!! On Friday, February 28, 2003 at 5:35 pm, sanlihe wrote: >The hidden Windows partition is easy to fix. >Just run 'grub' from /boot, provided you have installed >this partition. >type: unhide (hd0,0) >If you're not sure the device name required by 'unhide', >check /boot/grub/grub.conf > >Restart and Windows will boot. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Friday, July 25, 2003 at 4:34 am Posted by craigSH (1 messages posted) so which option do i choose in zboot to convert my xp ntfs hidden (by partition magic8) back to normal ? many thanks,c On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:06 am, Solean wrote: > >Easy. Get Zboot and fix whatever problems you have. Easy peasy lemon squeezy..... >Dammit... my grade 5 teacher is affecting me again... after all these years.... > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 12:41 pm Posted by DHound (1 messages posted) I ran into the same problems with autochk and C000021a, etc when setting up PQ's BootMagic... I was able to recover fully by over-riding BootMagic auto-visibility on my XP-Home partition (manually setting the visibility properties for NTFS, Pri-1, in my case). I'm just glad I found this thread and was able to piece together what I needed to do. M$ and PQ sites were a bust. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Monday, September 1, 2003 at 1:53 pm Posted by Fredrik Kant (1 messages posted) Thanks for the tip, it also worked for me. My problems occured when I used PartitionMagic 8.0 and tried to to create a new partition for installing Linux. I recived an error but the partitions were there so I installed Linux (that worked fine). When I then tried to boot XP I got the described error. Unfortunatly did I first tried to fix the problem by creating repear disketts from MS (because it is a known bugg that you can't use the re-installtion cd and use option R, because it doesn't accept a given adminstrator password) and tried to used the disketts. That didn't solve the problem so I used Google and find your tip. But as you mentioned, it is important to check the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to get write divice info. On Friday, February 28, 2003 at 5:35 pm, sanlihe wrote: >The hidden Windows partition is easy to fix. >Just run 'grub' from /boot, provided you have installed >this partition. >type: unhide (hd0,0) >If you're not sure the device name required by 'unhide', >check /boot/grub/grub.conf > >Restart and Windows will boot. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Monday, December 15, 2003 at 11:04 pm Posted by Zeashan (1 messages posted) I had a similar problem on my dell laptop. Luckily it was a dual boot and I was able to boot into linux to solve the problem. apparently, for me at least, my drive fs type was changed, not the actual structure, but just what it reports, so instead of ntfs it was hfbs/ntfs or something.. i used cfdisk to change it back to ntfs, rebooted, everything was gravy. On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 10:31 am, Mike Gruich wrote: >I have also seen this, recently with new XP updates that hit my office. Several people >shut down the auto update during the install and were left with the same error. > >Could not log in, admin password bad, last known good did not work, and no "safe >mode" > >Here is the fix! > >Get your XP CD and boot from it >Do not go into recovery console, choose "Set Up" >Hit F8 (only after reading all the mumbo jumbo!) >Choose Repair, "R" > >WindowsXP will then copy the installation files to your Hard Drive, whole thing takes >about 45 minutes or so. > >It runs similar to SYSPREP, you will need to put a CD KEY in, but all settings should >remain in tact. If you are on a domain, don't choose it from the setup. Wait until >after (it should retain this anyway, you might not have to put this in). > >The only problem I found was that my ADMIN TOOLS needed to be reinstalled for Active >Directory. > >Let me know if this helps! > > >Mike > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 12:10 pm Posted by Nick (1 messages posted) Hi, I have the same problem as u. XP works fine but I just get this irriataing msg at boot up. Did u find a fix for that? -THanks in advance Nick On Friday, February 28, 2003 at 10:04 pm, Maggot wrote: > >Sanlihe, >I suspect your solution is only for Linux, but I hope you'll forgive my ability restricted >to DOS & windows. >I run WinXP-h on a homebrew i850 overclocked P4-2.0A. After installing a new HDD >-- the estimable WD600JB, (cloned it from a Barracuda-iv)-- I decided to resize partitions >and place page file off of primary. I used PM7. > >I can forgive that *none* of the changes I thought I'd implemented with PM7 appeared >after reboot, but now I too am greeted with error "xmnt2001 program not found... >skipping autocheck" just prior to WinXP-h completing its loading. > >WinXP seems to be fine aside from this 5 second message on cold or warm boots. > >I made PM rescue floppys (as well as a system Restore >point ) prior to the PM 7 activity. > >Please advise: ought I to use the Rescue Floppies, or Sys Restore, or some other >remedy? > >Thank you! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 3:45 pm Posted by roger (1 messages posted) Go to regedit: HKLM\system\current control set\control\session manager then change the boot execute key value to autocheck autochk* [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 8:25 pm Posted by Carlos (1 messages posted) Por fin alguien que sabe algo : )))) Thanks a lot Roger. I had a similar problem but my system do was able to boot my w2k after the annoying message in the black screen. That's the kind of solution I was looking for just to get rid of the boot up message. I had been trying to find the right key with RegHance when I found your posting. Clever, neat and simple. ; ) On Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 3:45 pm, roger wrote: > > > >Go to regedit: HKLM\system\current control set\control\session manager then change >the boot execute key value to autocheck autochk* [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 8:45 am Posted by Falcon (13489 messages posted) Try "info grub" in RH. GRUB is the most powerful bootloader I've ever seen. The Wereotter On Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 5:27 pm, olibear wrote: >A ZILLION THANK YOUS! > >i loaded red hat 8 and everytinbg was fine until i decided i wated to see my winXP >again. thanks to a google search and your post...i am back in action! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, June 1, 2004 at 10:06 am Posted by mo (1 messages posted) Hi guys- I have a similar problem, only with a couple more complications. I have suse linux 9.0 and XP. A power cut half way thorugh Pmagic NTFS resize meant that I terminated the resize prematurely. Consequently, when booting XP, I have the autochk + xmnt2001 errors and then the Pc reboots. I can't change the Part Table Type to 07 from 3C using ptedit.exe (PowerQuest) cos it says unable to write changes. Also, I can't modify the dirve using GRUB since Linux 9 doesn't support the SATA drive on which my XP resides. Safe mode doesn't boot either. I can see the files I need in Recovery mode (XP CD boot) but I have no access to them to copy them etc. Any ideas (other than getting suse 9.1)? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at 3:41 am Posted by george_d (1 messages posted) A WINDOWS-ONLY SOLUTION I had the same problem, and solved it thanks to this thread. I triple-boot Win98, W2k & XP. (No Linux). Win98 is on the C-drive fat32 partition, W2k & XP are on other NTFS partitions. I use the simple Windows boot menu to select OS (no Bootmagic). After using Drive Image 2002 to restore an image of the C drive partition (to fix a problem which had crept into my Win98 setup), I got the 'autock program not found' and automatic shut down whenever I tried booting to XP. From this thread I realised the problem was that the XP partition had been 'hidden' by Drive Image. My solution was to boot from a set of Partition Magic floppies and then use PM to unhide both the NTFS boot partitions - W2k & XP. HTH George D [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 9:06 pm Posted by gustavo (1 messages posted) Hey I tried just what you said but when i access the partition magic disk i cant unhide the partition.....?? is there another way to do it? On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at 3:41 am, george_d wrote: >A WINDOWS-ONLY SOLUTION > >I had the same problem, and solved it thanks to this thread. > >I triple-boot Win98, W2k & XP. (No Linux). Win98 is on the C-drive fat32 partition, >W2k & XP are on other NTFS partitions. I use the simple Windows boot menu to select >OS (no Bootmagic). > >After using Drive Image 2002 to restore an image of the C drive partition (to fix >a problem which had crept into my Win98 setup), I got the 'autock program not found' >and automatic shut down whenever I tried booting to XP. > >From this thread I realised the problem was that the XP partition had been 'hidden' >by Drive Image. > >My solution was to boot from a set of Partition Magic floppies and then use PM to >unhide both the NTFS boot partitions - W2k & XP. > >HTH > >George D [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 12:59 pm Posted by dhdag (2 messages posted) I need help with a similar problem... i am not at all familiar with linux... i used partitionmagic to create a linux partition (AFTER C:) and then booted up with openbsd 3.8... after getting to the install screens and hitting a few buttons i decided to not install it because i wasn't sure of what i was doing... so i exited the installer and tried booting back into windows so I could read up more on the installation of openbsd 3.8, now i am getting the error "The session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a" From here i tried booting back into the Openbsd but wasn't sure the command to use in openbsd or if i should go to shell, try installing, or upgrade (MY only 3 choices), Right now i tried Install and im sitting at a fdisk: 1> console ... Please what do i type next to unhide my partition or what can i do to get it back... Thanks in advance - {DBD}Cobra [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 12:01 pm Posted by Mike Shafer (1 messages posted) Thanks for the great fix! Fired up Knoppix CD, went to the cmdln and used cfdisk. Changed to partition type to 0x07 and viola - WinXP on reboot! Cheers! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 5:09 pm Posted by Josh Age:12 (1 messages posted) Is Your Computer A Dell??? If so when your computer starts right after the boot screen goes accross quickley press Controll F11 On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 4:00 pm, BPM wrote: >Whenever I start my computer, I get this error: > >xmnt2001 program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK >autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK > >Then the screen blinks, and then I get this: > >STOP: C000021a {Fatal System Error} >The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a >status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000). >The system has been shut down. > >I'm typing this from another computer, BTW. Any idea as to how t >o fix this? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 7:21 pm Posted by Paulette New (1 messages posted) "autock program not found - skipping autocheck" When trying to get into my computer I received this the above message and than the computer shut down and repeat the same message, and I was unable to start Windows XP. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 4:36 am Posted by Bill the Cable Guy (1 messages posted) I have had this happen on two different Dells that were pretty much the same. I think it is Nortons GoBack that is doing it. Same thing fixes it as if you did it loading Linux. Boot with a Linux disk and change the boot partition with cfdisk to 07 instead of 017 effectively unhiding the partition. Damn Norton crap. Mahatma On Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 7:21 pm, Paulette New wrote: >"autock program not found - skipping autocheck" > >When trying to get into my computer I received this the above message and than the >computer shut down and repeat the same message, and I was unable to start Windows >XP. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Monday, July 13, 2009 at 6:06 pm Posted by Robert Neville (1 messages posted) 6 years after your post, your answer relieved my grief and solved my problem. I had the same problem on Windows 2003 server x64. I booted from a system rescue cd (gentoo based), ran gparted and saw indeed that the partition was hidden. I unflagged the partition with gparted, applied the change and rebooted. This time Windows booted just fine, no blue stop screen with that arcane error. Many, many thanks for your post. On Friday, February 7, 2003 at 6:59 pm, tatzj wrote: > >I could solve the problem correctly. > >To make the WinXP partition unhidden, you can use fdisk command from Linux. >Linux fdisk can change the partition label, e.g. from hidden NTFS to (unhidden) NTFS. > >The operation can be done with some Linux boot FD. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 2:22 pm Posted by elias (1 messages posted) Same here. I almost had a heart attack and thought that I lost some data and messed winxp up because of this PM 8.0 crash. Answer was in a 6 year old post =) On Monday, July 13, 2009 at 6:06 pm, Robert Neville wrote: > >6 years after your post, your answer relieved my grief and solved my problem. I had >the same problem on Windows 2003 server x64. I booted from a system rescue cd (gentoo >based), ran gparted and saw indeed that the partition was hidden. I unflagged the >partition with gparted, applied the change and rebooted. This time Windows booted >just fine, no blue stop screen with that arcane error. Many, many thanks for your >post. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't get Windows XP to start Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 5:09 pm Posted by Carl_Ally (1 messages posted) With all the new windows patches that were coming up I figured I sure finally install Service Pack 3 using all the instructions from windows - it froze - dumb reason was I'm moving from DSL to area that only has ATT that supposed work there - big joke 1 bar and two nearby towers that are on the ATT map at store are supposed to be line of sight. Other I figured after 3 being released so long ago it would have the bugs worked out. NOPE. Getting the can't locate autochk and get the blue screen c000021a error. Need laptop - disabled but used to teach computer programming at a college. Stroked so one handed typer, no vision in Left side of each eye- global ok but have to try to scan full pages and usually can't - so small columns answers best. Now I can get only to start and F8 and nothing works. 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