Re: unable to boot laptop

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I have an Emachine laptop running windows XP home edition. It was
running fine ... switched off normally but the next day I turned it on
it started booting (gets to the normal windows XP screen displayed
during boot ) then came up with message " autochk program not found -
skipping autocheck " , it then rebooted and repeated this action again
and again .
I have tried all of the safe mode starts ( F8 ) and the same thing
happens . If I disable the reboot after system failure from the F8 menu
it displays this message after the autochk problem -
"STOP: c000021a Fatal System Error
The session manager initialization system process terminated
unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000022 (0x00000000 0x00000000)
The system has been shut down"
I have tried using the system disk repair function and have run the
chkdsk , fixboot , fixmbr from the disk .. all of which it said were
completed successfully , but it made no difference.
Is there anything else I can do before I spend money on professional
help .
Any help appreciated

Does the file c:\windows\system32\autochk.exe actually exist? You can
find out by booting he machine into the Recovery Console mode, using
your WinXP setup disk.

If the problem is caused by a damaged registry then you could perform a
manual System Restore as explained here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545. I've hade good success with this
one on several occasions.

There is no point in running fixboot and fixmbr. These tools will
restore the initial boot-up environment. In your case there is nothing
wrong with the initial boot process - the problem occurs much later,
when Windows is starting up.
Thanks for the advice ..... I have checked and the autochk and config
files
exist in the c:\windows\system32 directory. I would like to try the
manual
recovery you suggested , but there is a warning stating not to use the
procedure on OEM installed operating systems . Being an amateur and the
fact
my laptop came preloaded with the operating system I am a little worried
about attempting it and ending up in more trouble than I have now. In
your
experience has manufacturer installed operating systems caused problems
using this recovery method ?
Thanks for sharing your time and experience.
Terry

If you read the instructions for the manual System Restore then you will
see that they include steps to create backup copies of your registry files
before replacing them. This means that whatever you do, it is fully
reversible - provided that you follow the instructions.

Well I tried it ... with no success. As soon as I exited the recovery
console as instructed it rebooted and again said it could not find
autochk-skipping autocheck and rebooted as before .I double checked that the
autochk file existed in system32 and it does .
Would you advise copying the original system files back from the temp
directory or leaving the new ones ?
Thanks again for your help
Terry


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