Windows Vista: Chkdsk at startup...over and over and...
Chkdsk at startup...over and over and...
by DavidHimself - 5/19/08 9:18 PMNever finds any errors, but always says my user folder is corrupt. Creates a temporary profile for me. Will not let me see anything in my user folder--says it's unreadable. But I can see everything from BartPE, from an Ubuntu machine on the network, from an XP machine on the network.
Running chkdsk from the DVD finds no errors, but also says it fails to update the log. Aha. Tried clearing the log, and that made no difference. Still get chkdsk over and over.
System Restore won't work--says drive C: is corrupt and I have to run chkdsk. You can guess what that gets you.
Can anybody think of any option other than a complete reformat/reinstall? I have all the source code for the next killer app in my Visual Studio 2008 folder, which is in my Documents folder, which I have copied to the XP and Ubuntu machines even though Vista says it's unreadable...
(NT) Why not make a new account and move over?
by R. Proffitt
- 5/20/08 9:27 AM
In reply to: Chkdsk at startup...over and over and... by DavidHimself
That worked
by DavidHimself - 5/21/08 7:02 PM In reply to: (NT) Why not make a new account and move over? by R. Proffitt
Was not as simple as it sounds. The offending folder would not go gently. I had to install Linux on the machine and delete it from there. Windows couldn't do it. (I was planning on installing Linux anyway, sometime.)
Thanks for the suggestion. Still would be nice to know how this happened.
Dave
Just an old bug.
by R. Proffitt - 5/22/08 7:10 AM
In reply to: That worked by DavidHimself
It happened in XP (truth be told it happened to me back in Windows NT 4.0 too!)
Your fix is proper and the next step up in fixing this.
Bob
Repair Vista boot record
by Psimulator - 5/24/08 4:07 AM In reply to: Chkdsk at startup...over and over and... by DavidHimselfDear friend;
It sounds like your boot record is corrupt. You need to have Vista DVD (version you installed in your PC: Home, Home premium,home business, ultimate 32, ultimate 64)). Boot from vista disk , select language then select repair.
Beware.
by R. Proffitt - 5/24/08 5:46 AM
In reply to: Repair Vista boot record by Psimulator
I don't advise this without writing they should backup their files first. It has resulted in vanishing drives.
Tried that - it didn't work
by DavidHimself - 5/24/08 5:51 PM In reply to: Repair Vista boot record by PsimulatorI tried that before I posted here. I didn't lose any files, but it didn't work, either. First I tried the recovery console. Fixboot and then with some trepidation, fixmbr. No luck, so I went through the full repair (which amounts to a re-install of all the system files). Still no luck.
The problem was with my home directory. For some reason, Vista could not read it. XP could. Linux could. But not Vista. And something must have actually been wrong, because XP couldn't delete it, either. Thankfully, Linux could.
Dave
Tried that - it did'nt work......
by drbooth - 5/25/08 5:41 PM In reply to: Tried that - it didn't work by DavidHimselfI am not trying to be the bad guy by sending in a reply to your
chkdsk problem as you have some very good people giving you an answer.
The one thing that I did not see is the possibility that your system
is trying to tell you that you are going to have a problem with your
HD in the future. Like I said, do not want to jack up your nerves, but
I can remember back in the old Windows ME days when chkdsk kept trying
to rerun and my HD did crash. So I do sincerely hope that this is not your issue
but I would be inclined to back up your HD files (which is always a good idea).
Have a great day. Dale
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