autochk.exe not found during boot - tried various things already!

[Guest]

hi folks

am getting autochk.exe not found during boot - winxp home, sp2. If i turn
off my external usb hard drive, i can get past this screen. if i dont, i cant.

after getting into windows, i turn on the usb drive, it works fine. chkdsk/f
on the volume reports no errors or bad sectors.

Have tried:

1 - installing a new, clean version of autochk.exe No effect
2 - making sure i dont have the hotfix that some users reports causes this
error
3 - have checked to see using ptedit if i am suffering the 'hidden
partitiion' problem that some users have reported.

I cant get rid of this message. Everytime i start windows, its there (with
or without the external drive on).

Anyone have any ideas?

thanks

 

[Curt Christianson]

HI,
Try this fix courtesy of MS-MVP Rick Rogers:

Hi,

Click start/run, type cmd and click ok. From the
prompt, run "chkntfs /d"
and hit <enter>. This should
eliminate the autochk prompt. I would also
replace the existing
autochk.exe file in the system32 folder with one from
the \dllcache
sub-folder (just delete the one in system32 and reboot, SFC
will
do this for you).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka
"Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/Associate
Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows
help - www.rickrogers.org

HTH,