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Checkdisk Error Cannot Open Volume For Direct Access

Feb 21, 2006

This problem started happening randomly and now I cannot run checkdisk at all on reboot. Basically I cannot run Checkdisk at all on my OS drive because it always says in Windows that it is in use and needs to run the scan on next reboot. After I reboot, the above error message displays (see thread title).I've ran a virus scan and spyware/adware scans and I'm now pretty sure that it isn't the issue. I've tried disabling all non-essential services in services.msc and disabling all startup items under msconfig.exe, neither of which made any difference.I'm really beating my head against the wall on this one, I have no idea what the cause is?

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Hdd Slow During Checkdisk

Sep 28, 2008

. Everything is going pretty well, but I have tried to perform a chkdsk. My internal hard disk is partioned as C and D; they "accepted" perfectly chkdsk in "normal times", but the 80 G external, that as a matter of fact, behaves perfectly, has taken more than three hours (until I stopped it) in the last revewing: the "files" = it practically stops in "2%"; other previous three ones's reviews took normal time. Is it just for the hard disk's size, or is it the sign that something is going wrong? Many thanks and greetings

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Wants To Run A Checkdisk On My External USB Drive

Aug 28, 2005

I am running XP sp1 Recently windows wants to run a checkdisk on my external USB drive.
This is done every time I start windows.Even though the checkdisk result shows no errors it wants do do it every time on boot up.I did a manual checkdisk ( full check) and it seemed to clear it up for a couple of days but now it had returned to the same situation.The disk is fairly new so I do not think there are any problems with it and
it runs fine.

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Scheduled Checkdisk Freezes At 83%

Oct 29, 2007

I setup a full scan of my hard drive. Upon restart the checkdisk program starts and that is where my problem begins. It checks ok through steps 1,2,3,4 but freezes at 83% on step 5. PC is locked cannot do anything. Power off and on again, checkdisk starts again, try hitting any key to cancel but it does not recognize the keys and starts the scan over again and with same results. How can I cancel the scan and restart my windows os?

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Keeps Returning To Checkdisk Menu

Jun 28, 2006

I scheduled a checkdisk on my drive c: checking both automatically fix file system errors and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors options. it does the scanning completely but when i restart the pc, windows does not load and it goes back to the checkdisk menu again. Even if i let it complete another scan, it keeps coming back to the checkdisk menu, unless i interrupt it and choose starting the pc at last known good configuration option. what do u think can i do with this?Also, i cannot create a restore point with system restore, and most of my restore points are lost.*Im using a new hard drive, the windows files are copied from my old hard disk using DiskWizard.

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Runs Checkdisk Every Time At Reboot

Apr 12, 2008

Runs checkdisk every time at reboot what might be wrong?

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Unable To Defrag, Checkdisk, And Restore System?

Sep 10, 2008

i cannot use disk defragmenter, when i click analyze or defragment it says "Disk Defragmenter could not start."i try to check the disk and it says "Windows was unable to complete disk check."last, i hope windows system restore could solve my problems, but after i select the restore point, i cannot click 'next', i clicked it and nothing happened.

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Delete Corrupt And Unreadable Folder - Checkdisk Doesn't Work

Sep 27, 2010

i have a folder on my desktop that is not empty but when i try to open it (via GUI or command line) it will not. i get "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" and it wants me to run check disk. when i do, i then get an application error on boot up. so i boot in safe mode with command line and disable check disk on boot up so i can get back into windows with no problem however the folder is still there and unable to open and/or delete. fsutil tells me that the c drive is dirty, but i just can't clean it.how can i delete "C:Documents and SettingsusernameDesktopNew Folder"?

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Setup Duel Boot Configuration - Slow Boot Up - Occurred Error Operating System

Oct 27, 2007

I"m running WinXP SP2 Home. Hardware is 2.0 Celeron, 1 gig Ram, 64MB Nvidia Video Card, PS/2 keyboard and mouse, HD's are 250GIG Western Digital with 4 partitions and 27% free on the XP Boot and 200GIG Western Digital with 2 Partitions. I have a Lite-On DVD +-R/RW drive and a 3.5 floppy. I am setup with a Duel-Boot configuration Win 98/XP. I do not have a paging file.

My problem occures after I hit enter for the Select Operating System page. I Hit enter, Win XP proceeds to load. After I hit enter and Windows loads the blue welcome screen 1 minute has passed. I hear the Welcome Audio music, however blue welcome screen is still there for 30 more seconds. Next is my picture that I have as my background that is shown without icons for 1minute 21seconds. Windows now displays my icons on my desktop. the icons blink at minute 4. after 4 minutes and 51 seconds I am able to use my computer. At bootup I only have 43 programs running and 357MB of the 1 gig ram taken.

What I have done:
1) I have started in safe mode and defraged my PC, 0% frag on all partitions except a drive that isn't currently plugged in and it was 1% because it's my backup drive (not worried about that 1%)
2)Removing all connected Componets and rebooted, same problem.
3) I have tried using msconfig.exe and setting the startup selection as Normal- it's defaulted to Selective. Tried reducing my startup programs. ....

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Computer Wont Boot - Boot Manager Error?

Apr 6, 2008

I had had 2 operating system on 2 hard drives (XP and Vista) I took vista off and replaced it with media center. I could boot both xp and media center but the vista boot screen always shows up and would have to go into "ealier versions of windows" and choose my OS from there. I read somewhere to get rid of the vista boot screen I should delete "bootmgr" file and "boot" folder from the root of C: I did this and now nothing works. It tries to boot into vista boot screen but it says files are missing and resets

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Installation Unusually Slow - Boot Error First Boot

Mar 30, 2010

I am having probllems installing Windows XP, first of all the installation is unusually slow, it has more than 5 hours installing. Then i have a boot error from Windows NOT from the BIOS, i have tried getting into the Repair Console an using FIXMBR and FIXBOOT, unsuccesfully; removed every suspecious setting on my BIOS..... The installator copies small parts, copy 1% or 2% and stops for a while (I think it is decompressing the files, but that slow!?). After that i get a booting error (I dont remember what does it says; i will post it later, when my 4th attemp ends).

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Won't Boot (error On Boot) / Can't See SATA Drive

Mar 31, 2010

I had voltage fluctuations last night due a snowstorm and the voltage dropped crashing my PC.It now won't boot and gives the error that a file is corrupted.Windows/system32/config..The PC runs an OEM XP home edition on a SATA drive, the PC also has an IDE drive (D) but the OSes are on the C drive.Inside the XP installation I have Linux Mint installed.When I boot I get the 2 options I always used to , XP (default) and Linux Mint.XP won't boot when selected and gives the error above.The Linux Mint, also on C and in fact installed as a program within XP, will boot, hence I believe the SATA drive to be undamaged.I can see the C drive and all the XP files from the Linux installation.I've tried using the original full CD and the recovery console but when the recovery console opens all it can see is the IDE drive which it labels D (and of course doesn't contain the original XP install.I can't remember how I got XP on the SATA drive in the first place, I don't appear to have any Hard drive drivers in the case I keep all software CDs in and I'm a bit flummoxed. I can only imagine I just fitted it and loaded the XP install disc but that's at odds with what seems to be happening now.Spent a large part of today Googling but can't find anything that will fix this. so far.I don't want to have to wipe and re-install everything unless there's no option, it's a fast way to kill a couple of days over the holidays.

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Boot Disc Error & Partmgr.sys Error

Oct 27, 2008

My machine shut down properly with no errors. Then when I tried to start it the next day I encountered the following errors. The first is a Boot Disc Error which is followed by a Boot from CD prompt.After copying files from the windows xp cd, a blue screen with a stop message appears with details of an error -
partmgr.sys PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. At this point, I am able to reboot in safe mode and do a system restore. However, when I shut down and try to restart, I'm back to square one

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HD Boot Up Error - Can't Boot Cd

Nov 29, 2006

Home Brew Computer .. Windows XP SP2 (with all the updates .. except IE7) I�ve installed a new ATA 250 gig Seagate � Cloned a good OS .. Making the C: partition 50 gig. The second Data Partition is recognized as the remaining 184 gig � and the Drive seems to be working great. Every boot up .. Windows says the software for the HD is not found and the ST3250824A may not work properly .. etc .. etc. Once past these messages .. all seems OK.

�. With one exception. When trying to make an Acroins backup of the C: Partition to an external HD .� It has many reports of Sectors being used or faulty .. and can not continue. If I use the Acronis Boot CD .. Acronis is AOK If I run Sea tools .. It results in a blacked out (result screen) upon completion. Windows Check and Fix disc seems OK. The device manager reports the Monitor with a yellow .. but the VIAS3G UniChrome Pro IGP device is working properly. Right now .. I�m not using the owners Monitor..

The Raid Controller � PCI bus 0, device 15 says the Drivers are not installed (code 28) But I�m not using the Raid Mobo SATA connections � (ATA drives only) This drive was Cloned from an 80 gig that was freshly restored from the Windows CD. When this 80 gig is re-installed � it does not have the boot up error .. and Acronis runs internally OK. The device manger still has the same two yellow Questions � which are understandable .. IMO. A new ATA Seagate 320gig is on order for an external enclosure application.

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On Boot Up Get The Error

May 25, 2006

On boot up I get the following error, TECHNICAL INFORMATION STOP:0X0000008E (OXC0000005, 0XBF80C87B, 0XF9C8CC64, 0X00000000)Win32k.sys � address BF80C87B base at BF 800000, datestamp 43446a58, Then it goes through a memory dump Windows XP Pro SP2.

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Boot From CD Error

Aug 30, 2005

I just upgraded my computer with a new mobo and vid card . I have WinXP BTW. Everthing was working fine until last night. I recorded a performance into Sound Forge and was about to save it when the computer shut down. It automatically tried to reboot but gave me an error like "Boot From CD. Insert disk and press enter". (btw, both of my harddrives were recognized) Well, I had no disk so I just pressed enter. It then proceeded to do a scan disk check. The message I received was "Your computer has just recovered from a serious error" . It suggested I send a report to Microsoft. I however have no internet connection at home. The details of the error included to file addresses. One was something like C:\Documents and Settingsminidump.......

I tried turning the PC on this morning and it turned on fine. The only thing I noticed was a mechanical sound like when the floppy drive is searching for a disk and there is none present. What could possibly be wrong?

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Error During Boot

Jan 9, 2005

My Daughter came home from college and asked me to look at her compuer apparently she is having a few problem.Error during boot. Error loading c:windowssystem32ridge.dll Cannot enable wired NIC card. Have to use wireless PCMCIA card to access the Internet. Used Dell diagnostics during power up and it shows no hardware issues. Driver seems to be okay.Cannot update windows keep getting an error message Microsoft Internet Explorer Your current security settings prhibit activex controls on this page. as a result, the page maynot display correctly. Checked Tools/Internet options and reset Privacy and Secuirty Tabs to default, checked advanced tab and unchecked disable script debugging. Get the same error messge when I try to download and run Panda Active scan or update Windows media player.

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Error - Boot From Another Partition

Jun 30, 2006

Where should I install codec like dvix, xvid? In the partition which win xp is on and boot from, or another partition? I would like to install as less programs as possible on win xp partition.

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Error Messages - Boot Up

Dec 10, 2007

error msg is about and how can I stop it from coming on whenever I boot up my computer. I am running Win XP Pro SP2. I could not copy this error msg into this box so I am typing everything that it says.

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Error Messages - Boot Up

Apr 23, 2008

My computer was running fine until I booted it up this morning and got these 2 error messages:

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Error Upon Boot Up - FilesWildTangentappsCDAcdaEngine0400.dll

May 3, 2005

I always get a Error upon boot up and am not sure what it is? I have searched all I could on "wildtangent" and it seems to be a online gaming program? yet I don't play games on my pc? I do have a younger brother though that may use this while I'm out. The error is as follows ERROR LOADING C:Programs FilesWildTangentappsCDAcdaEngine0400.dll The specified module could not be found.

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Hal.dll Error - Cannot Boot Disc To

Sep 22, 2007

I am running XP home on my Acer notebook. I installed 2 drivers from AMD website to update my Turion 2.0 processer. On restart I got the error message for Hal.dll. I been searching for a while now and can only find help that involve using the XP CD. I've been trying to boot the disc, but it won;t. I can't get past the hal.dll error.

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Unmoutable_boot_volume Error On Boot Up

Jan 23, 2005

I've got a Sony Vaio notebook and it just started with this error message today. UNMOUTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0x81A98D68,0xc0000006,0x00000000,0x00000000)

I searched around the web and the only thing I could find to fix this issue, is to get my Win-XP startup cd and reinstall windows. I cant find my startup cd. I found another site that stated if I cant find a start up cd to download 6 boot disks to floppy. Ive done so and I inserted the 1st boot disk and restarted my notebook I now get this error: Disk I/O error.

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Error Message During Boot

Oct 7, 2006

i keep getting the above error message when i boot up my computer and it refuses to go an further, i have tried solutions provided on this forum and none will work as my recovery disc has a recovery utility on it which wants to format my HD and then reinstall windows. but i want to keep my files and i have no way of getting the files the HD at the moment.

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Registry-error Can't Boot Up Tried Reinstall?

Jan 4, 2007

blue srceen tried safemode reinstall a fix on pc that worked but not this time keeps booting back to registry- error a problem has been detected windows has to shut down but freezes their hold button a lot of times to shut down. laptop is dell insprion 8200. I can get into bios to run xp cd repair but keeps going back to blue nightmare. error reads If problems continue, disable or remove any newly Installed hardware software disable BIOS memery options such as caching or shadowing. use safemode stop: DX0000005 (OX00000001, OXE15D9008 ,OX005CE000,Ox000001D6)

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Boot Up - The Error Checking Program

Apr 19, 2006

I set Windows to check my main hard drive for errors on my Dell E310 the next time it boots, so I shut it down and then rebooted. It started to load Windows, but after the loading bar went through 2 and a half passes, it just stopped. I figured this was normal for the error-checking program, but I left it for a couple of hours and came back. It still hadn't started, so I shut it down and booted to safe mode and did a system restore back to the beginning of yesterday. Right now I have it booting again and it stopped at the same spot.

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No Disk Error - When Boot The System

Jun 2, 2006

I have been getting this error for the last two days or so. I dont exactly know how but when I boot the computer up it gives me an Error saying: Windows- No Disk. Please insert disk into drive. Cancel. Try Again. Continue -Basically I either have to hit cancel or continue to make it go away...but it is still annoying to see it and it sometimes pops up periodically.

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May 24, 2006

I keep getting an error message everytime I boot up my computer. It says that the system has recovered from a serious error. Even if I shut down my pc normally, a scandisc is performed every time i boot. The error message says the ff: "The system has recovered from a serious error"

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Dec 13, 2004

I think I got virus, even though norton work 2004 cant dectected but everytime startup its say that (invalid boot disk...please insert...) and I have to put in my winxp in cd drive to boot up. I been format the disk and reinstall win but it don't help. I think some how my NTLDR got corrupted? but not just that one drive, I change to another smaller (4.0G) drive that got nothing but Winxp Pro and it's say the same. Winxp Pro 3.0g mhz 340g Hd.

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Boot Up Error / 2000 Professional

Jan 1, 2008

SystemRoot/System32/Drivers/asc3550f Erro status was oxc000012f Windows 2000 Professional system I recently purchased this computer system ($50) for my Mother who simply does e-mail and games (not on line games). I had to remove malware at first (can't remember the name) and had to install msconfig as 2000 did not have this feature. Now upon booting up, a window pops up with the above message, however upon clicking on the small x to close the window, then computer boots up and she uses it. Nothing else happens. I decided to go into the WINN file and found a folder (drivers) and actually saw the little driver file "asc3559f" and was going to simply remove it by copying it to another folder, shutting down and trying to reboot but must admit, I chickendd out. She lives about 100 miles from me so I didn't want to cause trouble and left it alone and I am now beginning to think since it boots after closing the pop up window; leave well enough alone.

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