e12,

My situation is just like yours - I started getting this error after the program to remove the Spylocked malware crashed on me. It doesn't seem to be a partition issue with my machine though. I tried out ptedit and the partition is still labeled as NTFS (non-hidden). I went so far as to do a repair install of Windows, but that didn't help either.

I'm just about at the point where I'm going to try to attach the HD to another machine and try to salvage what I can from it and do a clean re-install.

Have you had any luck yet?

My computer won't start at all. It begins to start with the window logo then goes to the blue sceen that says "autochk.exe not found skipping Auto Check. Then it won't start up it just keeps trying to reboot. I am also having a problem with a start up error message saying that "Primary Slave Drive Fails" I have the option to press F2 to bypass and I have been doing that and it has worked fine not any more.

So my question is my cd drive or my second hard drive my primary slave drive and what do I do about the autochk.exe with out being able to boot up.

Can I get some help too. I am having this same problem

Hey Guys! I fixed the problem. In my case, it is the problem with Norton Goback.
When I disabled completely Norton Goback and restarted my PC, everything is just fine.

Why Norton Goback cause the problem is beyond my knowledge. You may try this way if you have Norton Goback installed. Make sure you disable Norton Goback completely, i.e. you will see pop up information that Goback file will be deleted.

Hopefully this helps!
Jing

after using smitfraudfix
to remove a trojen

and all of a sudden it could not complete the cleaning and i had to rebot the computer by hand

now i get the autochk programe not found

i tired the


ptedit
reapir windows
fixboot
fixmbr
i used all the boot options in dos

i i instaled widows on my drive d
and i can get on the computer but cant get in the system32 folder for the first windows
becouse my first widows was set to were only the admistreator could acces the files

i tried pasting a new autochk file in system32 folder but its allready their

help
thanks

ok i got found a way in

if u have ur hard drive split like me or have 2 hard drivers ur in luck

1. reinstall winows xp or what ever u have on the other drive
2. from thier u can replace the autochk and chkdsk in the system32 folder in windows on drive c
.copy the new files from the new winowos u installd..delet the old files and past the new ones in


......

if u cant can in and wont give u permision
acces denide pop up
check this


1. boot into safe mode on the new windows u just installd and login as adinistrator

2 right click the folder system32 folder in winows on the c drive
3 hit properties
4 click on sucurty tap at the top of the pop up
it will say u dont have permision or somthing but will still bring up the pop up

5 click advance
6 click the tap called owner
7 chose the administrators for the new windows the one ure using right now
8 click ok on all the taps
9 right click folder and hit propertys another time
10 hit securty...this time that warrning wont pop up
11 ull see a butting called add
12 hit it and type the ur compurter name u gave for the new winows
13 also type administrator so u can open it from their
14 alow those names to do what ever they want to the files
15 hit ok

now click the folder u should beable to get in it

16 now u have to do the same procces u did for the folder for the files u want to delet
witch is chkdsk.exe and autochk.exe
delet and copy and past the new winows files

and thier u have it

if u can still get it to work

do what i did

go to all the folders and files and change the properties as u did in the steps i listed above

u can highlight all files at one time and change the permisions
but u cant do that with folders ath the same time

same go's for the folders u can hight light all the folders and change the propertys one one shot but u cant do it with the files


also get ur self a external hard drive so u can copy and past all the files u want to save to it

after ur done u can wipe ur hard drive and start from scratch


hit this up tell me if this works and show ur thanks

this took me hours to find out
..and im not a computer geek or nothing like that i barly know my way aroung the damn thing
haha

sorry if it aint that clear and for the spelling

peace

i have try 100pr00f guide.... (even though it hard for me to understand )
but it seems have resolve my problem.... and now my pc is fine again

for those who dont want to formating their harddisk then you should try it.

THANK YOU 100pr00f

no prob glade i can help

Hello, I'm having a slight variation on this problem:

Summary:
I cannot finish booting into windows. No error. When trying to run chkdsk i get autochk.exe not found.

Details:
Drive A = 80GB SATA connected to mobo. Win2003.
Drive B = 40GB IDE connected to mobo. Fedora7

I was messing around with the boot.ini on the windows drive, experimenting with bootup procedures. I added additional boot menu options trying to address different controllers/drives. I do not remember altering the primary entry in boot.ini. I rebooted windows and the problem began:

It loads fine to the multi-boot selection. I select the win2003 partition (which worked before reboot) and i see the white status bars fill up at the bottom of my screen as if its booting into win. At that point it REBOOTS. rinse repeat.

I checked my drive with ptedit and found both partitions were 07. When i got to the recovery console i copied chkdsk to another floppy, ran it and got the error everyone is talking about: autochk.exe not found. It asks me to specify a path. ??

If i boot from a win98 floppy, i cannot see any of my HDD's at the command prompt. If i boot from win2003 CD, i can see my C: drive fine. I tried copying boot.ini at the recovery console but any file i try to copy from C, i get an errer simply stating that the file is not found. This is strange because i can DIR and see the drive contents...

I have a good feeling that if i can get at the boot.ini it may be the issue.. but how?

Any thoughts?

When i tried installing windows over it it found 2 paritions - 30GB C drive, and the other was a - (a dash instead of a drive letter) and pertition type unknown. What i didn't mention above is that i tried FIXMBR FIXBOOT or whatnot in the recovery console, which forced me to do a chkdsk, which i can't do due to the error we're all talking about - autochk.exe not found..

My father is also having the same problem. His norton subscription was up so i ran the removenorton tool from symantec.com and after reboot, the autochk.exe not found error pops up and reboots. Ive been reading these forums and ran the ptedit utility from page 1 and edited the partition table "type" to 07 to make the NTFS volume unhidden. (table http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ptedit.htm) After making that mistake, i get an error saying that norton goback (STILL on the computer somehow) cant find the partition and it auto-reboots yet again. Now when i go back into the winME dos boot disk, i cant change directories to even run the tool again to change it back.

I have run the chkdisk /r tool through windows recovery and it said there was problems and it fixed them. ALSO i took his hdd out of his tower and attached it to my computer through usb. I can see his volume through disk manager but cannot explore it. (thats why i thought it was a hidden ntfs volume).

Any help or additional advice would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
~zcv7853

when resizing partition using Ubuntu Linux,
I had it installed on virtual

I got operating system not found error.. even though I resized using free space... so thats the last time I do that ...

one I did resize, it said OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND

SAFE MODE, last known good configuration and other stuff will not work..

1.I BOOTED FROM XP CD, ensuring cd was a boot device.. (on dell inspiron 6400 you press f12 and then select cd-rom from the device list)
2. see if Repair Installation is available
if yes.. do a repair installation I guess...
if no... restart machine, boot from XP cd again, then
go to RECOVERY CONSOLE (press r when prompted)

3. in recovery console it should fix c: and say unreadable perhaps... when you try dir ..

type:
fixmbr
fixboot
it will say ONLY do this if you can't boot, which should be the case.
4.

could not load autochk.exe
now you shoudl be able to see the windows loading screen.
The problem is a HIDDEN partition.
when windows loads it will say
could not load autochk.exe
http://www.pchell.com/support/autochknotfound.shtml

Now I have a LAPTOP with no floppy drive, and I wasted a good at least 10 CDs trying to get the thing to boot, and fix what I needed.

Basically you need any tool that can create a bootable CD(for laptops ..) allowing you to hide or unhide partitions
i.e. changing the partition type number.


Solution: GET ACRONIS PARTITION EXPERT



I am not sure if the trial can burn to a cd, but the professional version can, and then you boot from this CD, and follow the instructions at
http://www.pchell.com/support/autochknotfound.shtml
which basically involve changing the partition to NTFS type(assuming it was NTFS originally I guess..)
0x07
if you tried to install Ubuntu Linux the number will be some Linux number like 0x17... so change to 0x07
(right click hard drive and click advanced... after booting from that cd..)

Alternate Solution: get a bootable floppy with ptedit and boot from it
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...ies/ptedit.zip

The number here should generally be 07 (hex), meaning the partition is an "Installable File System", in other words a bootable drive. If its anything else its not bootable.

Using your tab key, tab down to the Type box and hold down ALT + T to open the Set Type menu, then with your keyboard arrow, select 07, tab down to Ok and press Enter

8) Hold down ALT + S to Save Changes to the partition table and then Press CTRL +C to exit out of the program.



COnclusion:
the problem is if the number is not 07... it is a hidden partition.

Don't know if it will work for everyone but it did for me and it will for most using Norton GoBack program.

SYMPTOMS
After you install or unistall GoBack (included with Norton System Works), and attempt to start your computer, you may receive an error message similar to the following:
C000021a (fatal system error).
The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000, 0x00000000)

CAUSE
This error can occur when you have GoBack installed on your computer and it is present in the boot sector.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, disable GoBack, and then uninstall GoBack. To do this, follow these steps.

NOTE: You cannot uninstall GoBack in Safe mode.

1. Restart your computer.
2. During the startup process, press SPACE to access GoBack's menu options.
3. When prompted, enter the option for Disable GoBack, and then allow the computer to complete the startup process.

Up until this step it should be fix and your computer should be able to load windows, after this if you want to continue with unistall follow next steps:

4. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
5. In Control Panel, double-click Add or Remove Programs.
6. In the list of installed programs, click GoBack, and then click Remove.
7. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the uninstall process.
If you want to continue to use GoBack, or if you need help removing or disabling GoBack, contact Symantec. Alternatively, visit the following Symantec Web site for support and information about recent upgrades that are compatible with Windows XP:
symantec.com/index.htm

Hope this helps.

Hi,
After I uninstall Norton GoBack unsuccessfully. I got the "Autochk Not Found..." text on my screen and my pc rebooted and shut on and off like that for ever. It took me a day and I finally got the bastar. I solved this autochk not found issues
Turn off and on the power button by hand and press keys: Ctrl+Alt in two finger and repeatedly hit the G key (if it's not working try again by press them three the same time down).

You will see the screen goes through some texts and codes. And look at the bottom it say to hold down the F key to uninstall Goback.

I held the F key for a while and let it go.

Turn the power button off by hand and back on again.( try this method a couple of times) Voila. I solved the problem. Windows start as normal.

If that doesn't work then try this link

pchell.com/support/autochknotfound.shtml
Good Luck

Dien.

P

Create the following file using notepad and name it autochk.reg:

______________________________________________
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager]
"BootExecute"=hex(7):61,75,74,6f,63,68,65,63,6b,20,61,75,74,6f,63,68,6b,20, 2a,\
00,00
______________________________________________________

Save it as "all files" in notepad. Click on the reg file you have saved and it should work after a reboot. Partition Magic or a similar tool was the culprit in my own case

Right here goes
Hi all new to the site & i am losing the will to live.................
I NEED HELP
Have an ALienware M7700 laptop which was fine until last night, switched it on this morning & get the autocheck not found screen & then a reboot
Tried the symantec fix to no avail
been into XP repair & tried chkdsk/r which does not work
My hard drives are 2 80 gig in raid 0 format
I can see them but my PC cant i think
Tried running windows & installing the 3rd party raid driver to run the drives but it says there are no drives on the system.
Is it the raid card faulty or am i just thick
This is my work laptop & i have not backed up for a month so i am desparate to get the stuff back.
HELP HELP HELP...........

Hello out there,

I have a simular problem
autochk missing .... and then looping
so I cannot start XP (sp2), I cannot start safe mode
I read this thread, made u bootable thumpdrive. started ptedit the drive is visible.

the problem started when i was playing a game. (1 hour version just to get a taste of it) after the hour was up the game stopped and I got a message like "buy it or quit playing" I am keen on my money so I quited it at that moment my PC froze. the only thing I could do was to kill the power. After restarting the problem started.

I don't have a dual boot system. and as stated before the partion where xp is installed is active and visible.

I tried chkdsk in de repair console, to no avail. the problem remains.

I noticed 1 peculiar thing in the repair console: "My drive letters are mixed up".
I have this faint feeling that this may be the cause of my problem.

lets see it was like this
c: - on drive2 (a pata drive)
g: - on drive1 (a sata II drive)
h: - also on drive1

g: contains the operating system, partion on C: is a primary partion, g: is a primary partion, h: is an extended partion.

now (in the repair console of xp) it is like this

c: - on drive1 (a sateII drive)
d: - on drive2 (a pata drive)
e: - also on drive1

Could this be the cause, and does anyone have an idea, what to do about it.
I would preferably not reinstall xp.

thanks in advance

Jean

I have an old Toshiba Satellite with XP professional on it. During one of the recent Windows updates [Service Pack 3], my system shut down and on rebooting it showed, roughly speaking, the message, "the setup was interrupted, reverting to the previous configuration". All right. When the system rebooted, I started getting the message:

autochk program not found - skipping autocheck

and then the blue-screen with the message:

Stop c000021a {fatal system error}
The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with the status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x000000)
the system has been shut down

Now, the F8 options like safe mode, debugging, restore directory services, last good configuration etc. DO NOT work. However, during restore directory services, I notice the first line that, again roughly speaking, reads multi(0)disk(0)raid(0)partition(1)

Toshiba gives F2 option for boot device. I tried booting through the Windows XP cd from the CD drive in order to do repairs. It DOES NOT work. So, my hunch is that floppy drive options [PTEDIT] might also not work.

Am I lost? Please, please, please help.

I booted up with recovery console and NTFS for DOS Pro and did the checkdisk for my volumes to make sure it was clean. System still did the "AUTOCHK NOT FOUND" error and rebooted.

I then noticed the version of MOUNTMGR.SYS in my WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS did not match the version in WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DLLCACHE\.

I renamed the one in DRIVERS and copied the one from DLLCACHE to it, then rebooted.

This time it came up with "Added notes regarding "Setup was interrupted. Restoring prior configuration", and showed a bunch of ". . . . " as it backed out the update that was pending. Now the system can boot.

I am not sure, but believe it was Windows XP SP3. . . but am checking.

Ok.. I have heard several different things here, so I will explain my own case, and maybe someone can tell me what is going on.

My OS: Vista
Computer: Dell notebook
Age: 8 months
Problem: When I start the computer it starts to load and then gives me a message saying autochk is not found. skipping autochk. But it just stays like that. It just came up out of nowhere, earlier it was working fine. Can anyone tell me what is going on? If you know whats wrong in my case specifically, please email me at Mandalore65@hotmail.com. Thanks so much for the help.