System is Fujtisu Siemens D1477 Mini-Tower dating back to 1/27/2003 (date of volume creation).
Board info: Fujitsu Siemens D1477 S26361-D1477 XP Pro SP3, P4 non-hyper 2.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, Maxtor 6L160P0 160 GB IDE master on secondary IDE channel. System will not boot w/master IDE on primary, only secondary IDE. Running Nvidia Geforce 6200 A pci card with latest video driver, version 307.74 Win XP english whql 32-bit.
System came in with a dead PSU. System would not POST, so replaced dead PSU (330 watt) with Corsair TX 650 (650 watt) model. As originally configured, had an 80 GB IBM drive partitioned to C: primary, D: and E: as recovery partitions in extended partition. As the original IBM drive had 56 bad sectors and counting... cloned this drive to the remanufactured Maxtor 160 GB drive (current hours used: 9.0 hours) and removed the extended partition as the recovery section was corrupted and expanded the primary to encompass the entire drive.
IBM drive has not been touched other than to clone to the Maxtor drive and is not in use. No a/v was installed, there was a severe problem with the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and 3.0 SP1 installations in that they could not be uninstalled on the clone drive; an error message would pop stating that neither could be uninstalled as doing so would affect other programs.
After the clone was done, avast! AIS 2012 was installed, and proceeded to get the Windows Updates. Problem was, the only updates offered were for 2.0 and 3.0, and attempting to install these three updates resulted in failure. Restart would bring up the same updates and the only option was to allow and have the system shut down. This went around and around until I found an uninstall utility from a Microsoft engineer and was able to remove .Net completely.
I proceeded to get 85 WU updates, (apparently this .NET problem had been around for awhile) and since the system had been dead since last November, I expected a few, but certainly not this number.
The problem is, that if I invoke chkdsk C: /f and allow AUTORUN.exe to lock the drive on restart, chkdsk will run, and then restart, and then the system will take about 10-15 minutes to get to the desktop and then not have full access to all programs. Normal start-up time before invoking is always 2:00 minutes with all start-up programs, including AIS as active, loading from cold boot to desktop; user does not have a password-enabled admin account.
Error boxes will display if I allow the process to run after running chkdsk and then reboot:
- RUNDLL: An exception occured while trying to run "NvMCTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit -login"
- Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library: Debug Assertion Failed! Program: C: \Program Files Dynex G Desktop Card Adapter\DynexWCUI.exe
File: dbgheap.c
Line: 1132
Expression: _CrtIsValidHeapPointer(pUserData)
For information on how your program can cause an assertion failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts
(Press Retry to debug the application)
Well, as the Dynex pci card was uninstalled and setup program was uninstalled, do not get this error anymore with the above condition. Removing the NvMCTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit -login start-up also removes that error.
Have set the boot process to a clean boot state, no third party programs running at start up, all non-Microsoft services disabled, and still have the corrupted boot process only when chkdsk /f is invoked. No third-party programs are running at this time.
Have run tweaking.com repair several times so far, no fix yet for this chkdsk issue.
If chkdsk is not invoked, system boots normally. If chkdsk is invoked, and corrupted boot then occurs, F8>Last Known Good will always put it right. sfc/scannow has been run several times so far; reboot does not cause problems.
BTW, using a disk imaging program to back up before major changes are made, problem with chkdsk seems to have started with the removal of .NET 2.0 and 3.0. As a matter of conscientious work, always check to see if essential recovery tools work properly.
