Scheduled Checkdisk Problem

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F. Edwin Felty

I recently set up a computer donated to a charity organization.

The computer is an HP that has a 1.3 G CPU, 768 MB Ram, two 40 G Hard
Drives.

I set up the first physical drive as 'C:' using the entirety of it's space.

I set up the second physical drive as two extended partition logical drives
with the Drive 'D:' as the pagefile drive and the last drive 'E:' as a
storage drive.

The first time I ran a scheduled checkdisk on any of the three logical
drives, the checkdisk completes without any difficulties and finds no
problems. Then it says:

'Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.'

except it doesn't..... I see no evidence of hard drive activity base on the
indicator light and have waited all night and still no joy.

I turned it off and did a cold restart and it ran the scheduled cheskdisk
with the same outcome.

Can someone help me out with this...I've not seen anything like this before.

Thanks in advance...
 
Try creating a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows XP the
disk must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows XP
machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy),
and copy Windows XP versions of ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it.

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| I recently set up a computer donated to a charity organization.
|
| The computer is an HP that has a 1.3 G CPU, 768 MB Ram, two 40 G Hard
| Drives.
|
| I set up the first physical drive as 'C:' using the entirety of it's
space.
|
| I set up the second physical drive as two extended partition logical
drives
| with the Drive 'D:' as the pagefile drive and the last drive 'E:' as a
| storage drive.
|
| The first time I ran a scheduled checkdisk on any of the three logical
| drives, the checkdisk completes without any difficulties and finds no
| problems. Then it says:
|
| 'Windows has finished checking your disk.
| Please wait while your computer restarts.'
|
| except it doesn't..... I see no evidence of hard drive activity base on
the
| indicator light and have waited all night and still no joy.
|
| I turned it off and did a cold restart and it ran the scheduled cheskdisk
| with the same outcome.
|
| Can someone help me out with this...I've not seen anything like this
before.
|
| Thanks in advance...
|
|
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| Eddie, now in Loveland
|
| "Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot them?"
|
|
 
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