Autochck program not found. Skipping autocheck

Question

Recently my Inspiron E 1505 runing Wndows XP Home started opening a light blue screen showing the following text "Autochck program not found. Skipping autocheck".

But then the bootup continued normally without any further problems.

I did a system search for this file (AutoChk.exe) and found it in C: \i386. During subsequent Internet searches for this type of error I read that this file was supposed to be located in C:\windows\systems32. SO I moved it from C:\i386 to C:\windows\system32. But I still received this error. Searching DELL's Knowledge Base didn't find squat.

jrszabo · Answer

That's the last thing that I tried to solve this problem. But it didn't help.

Kjhel · Answer

The computer may be trying to scan for a partition that is hidden by the operating system, or a removable hard drive that has been removed. This can occur if you installation drive management utilities or a manual/automatic chkdsk has beens scheduled to run on this non-existant/hidden drive. Try this:

Go to Start --> Run

Type regedit and press enter

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager

Double click BootExecute and replace whatever is there with:

autocheck autochk *

This is the default setting for Windows XP. See if this fixes the problem.

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Autochck program not found. Skipping autocheck

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