Windows XP help

Magick1 · #1 10-31-2004, 01:44 PM

My husband's cpu keeps wanting to do a disk check on boot up.

We let it, but it takes forever, then it gets stuck when checking the free space.

Any clues?

The files & folders check works...but, we have tried this probably 20 times now, to no avail.

Thanks!

I appreciate any help you can give me!

brian_igo · #2 10-31-2004, 06:59 PM

Ouch. Windows runs this test when the computer isn't shut down properly, like if you just yank the cord out of the wall. If you're not doing that but you are getting this message it means the shut down process has been corrupted somehow.

The most likely sources are spyware or a virus. If you have an antivirus program, update to the latest definitions and run a full scan on the system to see if it uncovers anything. Also download a good spyware detection and elimination program like Spybot. Hopefully one of these will uncover the source of the problem and get it off your machine without a lot of work.

The other possibility is that you had a faulty installation of a program you wanted on your system. If the antivirus and spyware checks come back clean and you're still having the problem, you can try uninstalling any programs that you put on the system at around the time you started getting the problems. But I'd recommend just using the Windows Restore feature to turn back the clock on your system to when it wasn't having this problem.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

Brian

Magick1 · #3 10-31-2004, 08:15 PM

Thanks. I will try that and see what we can come up with on his system.

I think there was a bad shut down & it offers you the choice to run the check disk at start up.

We chose to do that thinking we would just re-start, let the system do it's thing. Now, since it cannot complete, it has not done it's deal and we keep getting the check disk message and it freezes.

Sooner95 · #4 11-09-2004, 10:31 AM

Figure it out?

Magick1 · #5 11-09-2004, 11:01 PM

No, believe it or not, it's still doing it and we cannot get around it.

I am not really savvy with this stuff, and am totally lost where to go.

Thanks for checking.

If you have other tips, throw 'em my way, I am willing to try stuff to get rid of that annoying blue screen

nc10 · #6 11-09-2004, 11:52 PM

As a last resort.....

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...d_tro_rgwn.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;160963

Doesn't fix the root cause of your problem, but should keep windows from running the check at boot up.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #7 11-10-2004, 12:04 AM

Actually, I had this happen right before I noticed that my drive was failing. Is it finding anything on the disk check before it hangs?

Magick1 · #8 11-10-2004, 12:17 AM

No, it seems to be ok. But, for whatever reason, the ckdsk always stops after going through all of the files & folders (says it's ok) and then it proceeds to "check space" on the disk.

It will get through 88% of this check and it just stops.

I am not sure what might be hanging it up if it's checking for free space on the disk.

Magick1 · #9 11-10-2004, 12:18 AM

Thanks! I will print these for a reference.

I do want to figure out what's hanging it up though. Too bad they don't have like a diagnostic tool @ microsoft website that would provide this online somehow.

Thanks for the info!

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nc10 said

As a last resort.....

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...d_tro_rgwn.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;160963

Doesn't fix the root cause of your problem, but should keep windows from running the check at boot up.

Sooner95 · #10 12-01-2004, 03:34 PM

I did somemore research on this, becuase now my laptop does the same thing lol

Funlove virus can cause this

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...love.4099.html

tho, running XP, this is probably not the case, but worth a look