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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: CHKDSK & SFC don't work!

« on: January 05, 2016, 09:48:29 pm »

Boggin, wow, thank you for such detailed suggestions!

I ran CHKDSK from the boot CD as you suggested -- I needed to use CHKDSK D: instead of C: when booting off the CD.  It had errors so I ran that again with /F, ran it again without /F and it was clean.  Booted into Safe Mode with Command Prompt, it was clean. Booted into Safe Mode with Networking, errors with CHKDSK again!  I did a number of variations on these (CD,  Safe Mode with Command Prompt,  Safe Mode with Networking), all with rather unsatisfactory results.

So I ran SFC /scannow.  Errors.  Downloaded your recommended SFCFix and ran it.  (Note: the MajorGeeks page is down, in fact the whole site seems to be down, but by googling, which confirmed that SFCFix was "no longer available" at that site, but another site had an archived copy of it from back around November 1.)  Here are the results:

SFCFix version 42.32768.0.0 by niemiro.
Start time: 2016-01-05 22:16:06.728
Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - amd64
Not using a script file.


AutoAnalysis::
CORRUPT: C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-autochk_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_4019f2b8d860ad30\autochk.exe


SUMMARY: Some corruptions could not be fixed automatically. Seek advice from helper or sysnative.com.
   CBS & SFC total detected corruption count:     1
   CBS & SFC total unimportant corruption count:  0
   CBS & SFC total fixed corruption count:        0
   SURT total detected corruption count:          0
   SURT total unimportant corruption count:       0
   SURT total fixed corruption count:             0
AutoAnalysis:: directive completed successfully.


Successfully processed all directives.
SFCFix version 42.32768.0.0 by niemiro has completed.
Currently storing 0 datablocks.
Finish time: 2016-01-05 22:21:03.248
----------------------EOF-----------------------

Hmm, autochk.exe... I see a lot of other folks are having this issue.  And it might explain why I could never see output from a reboot-scheduled CHKDSK after running CHKDSK /F in a normal (or Safe Mode) environment -- I don't think CHKDSK ever did run on reboot, even though I had answered "Y" when CHKDSK asked me if I wanted to schedule it for the next reboot.

Finally, I downloaded the System Update Readiness Tool as you suggested, but I'm not sure it's going to "take" -- it's been "Initializing installation... " for about 30 minutes now. So I'm Canceling and restarting it, will then let it run all night if necessary. 

Hmm, I see that "Canceling updates...", as it reports now, is seemingly taking an equal amount of time...  (And I noticed that during the "Initializing installation..." period, it was showing 1-2% CPU usage and an ever-varying roughly 21-32 megs of RAM.  So it was doing something, but when the "Installing:" progress bar showed, well, no progress 30 minutes in, I decided to cancel it and retry.  If and when it gets through the Cancelling phase, I'll restart it and go to bed...

Thank you very much for your help Boggin...

Jelks

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / CHKDSK & SFC don't work!

« on: January 04, 2016, 06:54:37 pm »

Hi, I've got a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 laptop running Windows 7 Pro.  I've been getting the dreaded 80070005 error for months just trying to upgrade to Windows 10 that the system keeps telling me to do.  I've tried a whole bunch of things suggested at numerous sites to no avail, and a number of posts keep pointing back to the All-In-One utility here.  Unfortunately, I can't get it to work correctly -- though I don't think it's the fault of the AIO.

Background: I've checked my hard drive with Steve Gibson's SpinRite, cleaned and re-cleaned with CCleaner, defragged and defragged with PerfectDisk.  I've run the SubInACL tool (recommended elsewhere).

To AIO: 

When I run the AIO in Safe Mode logged in as "Administrator", I get through the Prescan just fine, but the "regular" CHKDSK shows errors.  So then I run the other CHKDSK -- I've tried both /F and /R.  I then tell it to reboot and run CHKDSK at boot-up.  Well, maybe this stuff has changed in the (many!) years since I had previously run CHKDSK, but I see no evidence of it running at startup.  Maybe it's just hidden behind the fancy graphics, but when I get back into AIO in Safe Mode, I get the same error with the regular CHKDSK.  Endless loop, over and over.

So I even tried running SFC.  Errors.

OK, so I boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt.  I can't do CHKDSK /F (or /R) because I'm already on the C: drive and the drive is locked, so I answer "Y" to do it on the next boot.   No evidence of CHKDSK running at the next reboot.  I then try Safe Mode with Command Prompt again.  Errors are still there, so I don't think CHKDSK is ever running at startup, period!

I also tried SFC /scannow in Safe Mode with Command Prompt a couple of times -- which reported some errors.  But I'd rather get CHKDSK /F (and/or /R) running correctly first.

Any advice?

Many thanks,

Jelks