I just noticed this yesterday on my laptop. When I boot up the computer I get a screen that says "Autochk not found -Skipping autochk.exe" then goes to my login screen and I am able to login with no visible problem. Now I cannot use the restore function, it tells me unable to restore. I also cannot defrag the drive. The computer is a Toshiba laptop 2.0 Pentium m 1g mem, 80g hard drive
View 14 RepliesDefrag runs for 2-3 minutes maybe and the computer freezes or defrag stalls. I have checked for viruses. I have run defrag in safe mode.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen i start my system i get a blue screen which says "AutoChk.exe program not found- skipping AUTOCHECK"
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The system then starts and i can see no noticeable difference. At first i ignored it and put off looking into it. It is too late to do a system restore. I have had this issue for probably almost 6 months.
I did a search and my problem seems to be a bit different than others issues people have had with this file. When i go to the system32 folder the file is there
My daughter thought she try to install Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS Desktop Edition as a second OS (She received this CD in the mail) ... But after installing Ubunta she get the choices to either choice WinXP Home Edition or Ubuntu, now here is the problem. Picking WinXP Home Edition she gets the error "autochk not found - SKIPPING AUTOCHK" then a quick blue screen with a bunch of letter and numbers and then it goes back to choices of booting to WinXP Home Edition or Ununtu.
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After the BIOS boot and before the Windows XP load screen, there is a recovery option. I tried this and got into the Gateway System Recovery. It says "Starting Recovery..." with a progress bar and then goes to this BSOD: STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure The registry cannot load the hive (file): SystemRootSystem32ConfigSECURITY or its log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable. At this point the screen just stays there and the computer responds to nothing but the power button.
My general understanding is that it isnt necessary to defrag very often. An occasional defrag should do the trick. Unless, maybe, youve done a lot of stuff recently. I do have several questions though that I hope someone can clear up for me and anyone else that might be interested.
1. Does a pre windows defrag program help any at all? If so, how often should it be run?
2. Is this different than the pre installed Microsoft chkdsk program? Isnt it also a pre windows defrag program?
3. Is one or the other better? Or are they basically the same?
4. What happens if, on occasion, you use a pre windows defrag program and the chkdsk program? Is there a conflict?
5. Does one try to write a certain way and the other rewrites a different way and therefore your wasting your time and effort?
6. Does a pre windows defrag program make a windows defrag program unnecessary?
7. Since it has been stated that the windows defrag program works fine, but isnt the greatest, what if you use a different combination, like, JkDefrag and a pre windows program? I mention JkDefrag because, if you wanted, it can be set to defrag daily or weekly. Set and forget.
8. Assuming one is doing a lot of stuff, when does a registry defrag program enter the picture? Or is one ever needed? Is this just a marketing thing?
9. And, of course, there are also registry cleaners. Again, assuming your doing lots of stuff.
10. And also theres also programs like CCleaner program, which cleans out cookies, temp files, etc.
11. Is there an order that one might want to run these programs? Even if it is only monthly or even less often?
So, my inquiry, isnt which program is better, as I would assume there would be a lot of opinions about that. But rather, what combo might one want to have on hand, or run, on those occasions that you feel the need to defrag. Again, if we look at the CCleaner program, in basically one step, it does a pretty good job of cleaning out all sorts of stuff. If you wanted, it can even be set to clean automatically. Set and forget. If one were to do the same steps, manually, it would take much longer, and maybe, still not be as effective as the CCleaner program. I have Zone Alarm firewall. Basically its set and, for the most part, forgotten about. I have the AVG anti virus program, set to do auto scans on a daily basis. Set and forget.
I have a Toshiba Qosmio running on XP. More than 50GB available and defragment wont start. Don't know what to do, it never did it before.
View 10 Replies View RelatedDepending on the "Expert you speak to" they all have their own opinions. One tells me to defrag daily, another tells my it will damage the hard drive to defrag daily and should not defrag more than once a week.
View 9 Replies View RelatedUnable to defrag my computer. Get message Disk Defragmenter has detected that CHKDSK is scheduled to run on volume HP-Pavilion(c Please Run Chkdsk /f When I tried to run Chkdsk /f, I get the message: The type of system is NTFS Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts (Y/N)Yes or No I still Can't Defrag and continue to these messages.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen I use XP's utility to analyze my disk fragmentation, it says "You should defragment this volume", but the defrag process hangs when it is about 1% done. Defragging when booted into Safe Mode doesn't solve the problem. I searched around, and it seems like this might have to do with my FAT32 disk partitions (see my specs). What do you guys think? What would be the next steps?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a dell 600m with Windown XP and when I go to Disk Defrag i get the following message:
disk defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume *C. Please Run Chkdsk /f.
not sure what that means...my system restore points also dont work but otherwise the computer is running smoothly...just afraid that my hard drive could crash again!
Thanks!
i am getting the screen that says a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down run chkdsk/f.. physical memory dump complete but when i go to do the chkdsk/f it does a chkdsk read-only because it is being used by another volume. i tried to defrag but it crashed.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI am having a problem getting Defrag to run on my C drive. I've tried it several times and it runs to completion but then when I check it again it is still very fragmented and says that I should defrag it. It reports that my drive is about 35% fragmented. I tried booting in Safe mode, thought that might do the trick but got same results, which means it did nothing. I am running Windows XP Pro SP2.
I downloaded Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier for a free 30 day trial, decided I didn't want it, uninstalled it and now my XP Pro Defrag has ceased to work any longer.
I get some weird message that it can't initialize and that I must have downloaded a different version .
guess the two were fighting each other.
Point is, can I download MS Defrag as a stand alone (Googled but no luck) or do I have to reinstall XP all over again...
Also, is MS Defrag good enough are does Diskeeper do a better job for the averge home user?
Open a command window and type defrag /? to show a list of commands.Exampel:defrag c: /analyce will show how much your disk is fragmented.
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It won't let me defragment my pc, says i don't have enough space free, how can i change that without getting rid of files i need?
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