Autochk.exe not found - Skipping autocheck? Endless boot loop?
I am having Windows XP installed on my system. I am trying to install a new software. But as the setup run the entire operating system freezes a lot during the process. I am unable to find the reason behind it. Upon restart there is a error message on the screen. The message says some Autochk.exe not found - Skipping auto check. I do not really remember that I had installed any software or application which is named as Autochk.exe. How can fix the same.
Re: Autochk.exe not found - Skipping autocheck? Endless boot loop?
Looks like issue with some missing file in your system and the changes would be done due to the installation. It is necessary that you must check properly for any pending installations in your system. I am sure it will help you more in fixing the problem. There are some system tune up utilities that will help you to simply scan your system and locate pending installations. Through which you can get rid of the issue. Check the startup also through msconfig and see what you find.
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Does the autochk.exe have to be from another windows xp home computer? Because my friend has office. Would that work? I was also wondering what do I do if it wont let me replace the autochk file and says access denied? If it doesnt work after I replace it I will make one of those disks and check the registry. Thank you for the help and information and sorry for all the questions.
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That did not helped much. It took hours to completely clean my system but at the end I am unable to find a solution for the same. The system looks proper to me. But this error on the screen is just annoying. It does not goes back. It keeps on appearing again and again each time when I start my computer. I cannot format the system. Because there is ample of data in it. And it will take long time to move.
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I am going to replace the autochk file tomorrow. I will burn one of those PE disks as well probably. One thing I did notice though was that, when I messed up my computer and it was still running (before I rebooted), I tried to edit the registry with regedit but after navigating all the way to the file, I couldnt find it. Is it possible that the registry file is missing?
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I think I know what to do. I read something about editing the registry to allow writing to directories that you normally cant. Like this. So if I make one of those PE disks I can fix the registry and replace the file. The only thing is I dont know what the registry looks like in the editor or what it should look like. Edit:Didnt see your post. Doing DIR does show a file listing and it is not there. I will try what you said.
Re: Autochk.exe not found - Skipping autocheck? Endless boot loop?
I had this same problem what happened was My partition got hidden while i was doing some experiment witn GNU GRUB anyways to fix it you need a partition program I just happened to have a HiRens boot disc btw this thing is a freekin life saver. I can't count the times this disc has saved my butt. Anyways to get the disc just do a search I'm sure you can find it then have a cd with you and burn the image to the disc and boot it up on your computer it will give you several options one is partition tools. Select Randish Partition Manager. it will show up with the first disk which will prolly be the one your windows is installed in check to make sure none of them are hidden you can also press F5 to cycle through any other hard drives if you have any more on your computer. If your main partition is hidden highlight it with the cursor press the insert key and select WINDOWS NT NTFS. or if you installed windows xp as a fat 32 then use that but most likely its an NTFS install. Press F2 to save. You can now reboot your computer and Windows should work I didn't have to fix any files after fixing the partition so it wasn't hidden anymore. This problem can also be caused by programs such as Partition magic. This also explains why you got access denied when you were trying to copy the files over to the directory but you were able to view them.