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Boot up of XP Pro goes straight to CHKDSK and hangs

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by john wolfenden, 2006/08/01.

  1. 2006/08/01
    john wolfenden

    john wolfenden Inactive Thread Starter

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    Help please - I'm a novice!
    I switch on Dell Dimension running XP Pro and the boot-up goes almost directly to CHKDSK - which starts running.
    It is impossible to Escape or Cntl+Alt+Delete and the utility runs until completion, at which point it freezes.
    The only escape is to switch the machine off.
    Restarting only starts the whole process again.
    What can I do?
    Is this CHKDSK facility authentic or something nasty?
    Many thanks to all
    John W
     
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  2. 2006/08/01
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    John W - Welcome to the Board :)

    CHKDSK aka Check Disk is a legitimate Windows process which will run at boot if Windows senses a problem with your hard drive - or on demand by the user at other times.

    The fact that it runs each time you boot and then freezes suggests a potential problem with your hard drive.

    As you have a Dell I guess you have a full copy of XP on the Dell CD rather than a Recovery CD. If this is the case you should boot from the CD to the Recovery Console and run chkdsk from there using the r switch - chkdsk /r

    If you know the make of your hard drive download the disk diagnostic software from the manufacturer's web site and run it.
     
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  4. 2006/08/17
    MBoogie

    MBoogie Inactive

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    found something...

    Hi John

    I'm fighting with the same problem on a colleagues pc... This might help. I wasn't able to test it yet but I'm happy if you would let me know when it worked. You'll need the console PeteC mentioned or a indipendently running OS on a CD like Ubuntu (never used, not sure if you can really access your harddisk)

    http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1026764766

    Greetings

    M
     
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  5. 2006/08/17
    MBoogie

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    Hi it's me again. I tried the Ubuntu LiveCD because I couldn't access the console (my friend lost his administration password...). It's pretty cool you get a complete desktop with everything. The only problem was that you couldn't access any NTFS drives... The driver you need is not automatically loaded and my Linux knowledge is zero :-S

    Therefore ultima ratio: format C: *evil grin* I always wanted to do that once in my life... *even more evil grin*

    I hope you're more lucky...

    M
     
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