Re: "error" autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK

From: Ol_school (Ol_school_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:45:06 -0700

Wes,
If you don't understand the autochecks thing...hell how do you think I feel
then? ha

NO..I guess when I did things I bypassed the norm of installing 2 op sys
with Windows idea of how to do it. Are you ready for this.....I installed XP
on my regular "C" drive...no problem. I then go into bios and select none
for primary hard drive...windows then opens the other op sys on what was my
slave drive now made my primary. Although I have no access to drive "C" at
this time I have a clean install drive "D" that I ran my studio programs on.
When I desire to go back to drive "C" I shutdown- redo the bios function to
auto detect...it then loads my primary "C" and slave "D" hard drive. I can
then if needed copy and paste files to either. Seems un-ethical approach,
but has always worked fine. Don't know why I chose this over reccomended.
Actually I do ...Studio is a memory- fluid file transfer- demanding
product... during "rendering" the fewer programs that were running in the
background the better and more reliable (less errors and failures) it ran.
Rather than run "enditall" or another task killing program I just loaded up
the programs I needed on the "D" drive keeping it clean of other programs. I
boosted my power supply, added extra cooling fans to keep it cooler.
Rendering a 30 minute (2.5gig) program used to go several hours+ at 100% CPU
use....during that time you wanted nothing else trying to operate in the
background. They have improved the program alot since then with real time
rendering etc, but it still needs to be the only product running to minimize
problems. Probably explains how I ended up with a dual NTFS partition
though. Several years ago I did run multiple op systems with Win 95 and win
98, then to XP etc...black screen on start up choosing which op sys I wanted
to run.
I did buy the Norton partition magic today with PTedit vrs. 8....it appears
exacly the same as my old free version 1 with several more types of drives
listed in the pull down column.....STILL NO "44"...heck it goes into the 80's
skipping 44. Still have no idea how to get to the hex 0x17 etc. I have gone
through ..highlighted changed some values....most of the functions in the
bottom menu are grayed out.
here is an idea of what it says( be visual) I am painting a screen shot for
you:
top left:
Drive 1 (76316 MB) 9729 cyl, 255 heads, 63 sectors per track

below this are 4 vertical rows numbered 1-4 with horizontal boxes for info
to be placed. Headings across top of each row from left to right are: with
corresponding data followed by row 2,3,4 data
type: 44 type 2, 3, 4, all 00
boot: 80 2,3,4 all 00
starting cyl: 0 (all 0's)
head: 1 2,3,4, all 0's
sector: 1 2,3,4 all 0
ending cyl: 1 2,3,4 all 0
head: 254 2,3,4 all 0
sector: 63 2,3,4 all 0
sectors before: 63 2,3,4, all 0
sectors: 156280257 2,3,4 all 0

middle bottom of menu: Partition Information (when type 44 highlighted) says
bootable 76308 MB

all other partitan types highlighted shows freespace

If I change row one type from "44" to "17" partition information changes
to: Hidden IFS(NTFS,HPFS) bootable, 76308 MB

I then have option to save or disregard changes. no hex 0x17 anywhere.
and that is where it sits! ;>0

AGAIN APPRECIATE YOUR TIME
OL_SCHOOL

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