hard disk changed to dynamic type after using disk management

Arc · 25 Jul 2012

I am just thinking , may we have another try with startup repair with marking C as active ?

christin91 · 25 Jul 2012

gregrocker said:

You deleted your REcovery partition without asking us first which leaves only the less-reliable Recovery disks to run. You may need to wipe the HD first with Diskpart Clean COmmand before they will even run. This must be done with the Win7 DVD or Repair CD which we have linked repeatedly but I seriously doubt you've even tried for repairs.

How about first booting the Repair CD or WIn7 DVD Repair console to run the three Startup Repairs as advised (and ignored) and then report back exactly what happens like everyone else does who wants our help? Do it now.

May I also ask your age, as we are not allowed to help those younger than 13 because they also have no attention span?

hey Greg,I deleted Recovery drive because I created recovery to dvd's & the drive could be deleted as told to me by HP salesperson.

I created repair dvd & booted using that just like you said but the problem wasn't resolved?

By the way I'm 21 years old.

Kaktussoft · 25 Jul 2012

You said "Rebuild MBR using PW failed". Why????? error message please

christin91 · 25 Jul 2012

Kaktussoft said:

You said "Rebuild MBR using PW failed". Why????? error message please

I didn't said that.I said even doing that the problem of autocheck was not solved.

christin91 · 25 Jul 2012

Arc said:

I am just thinking , may we have another try with startup repair with marking C as active ?

Too late Arc,I already started windows installation.

Any helpful suggestions?

Kaktussoft · 25 Jul 2012

The MBR is most likely fine. PW looks fine. Even windows starts, but is giving you an autochk error.
If you press F8 on boot you see

Select "disable automatic restart on system failure". And press enter. What happens after boot now?

Kaktussoft · 25 Jul 2012

christin91 said:

Arc said:

I am just thinking , may we have another try with startup repair with marking C as active ?

Too late Arc,I already started windows installation.

Any helpful suggestions?

If you had listened we could have solved it!

Kaktussoft · 25 Jul 2012

christin91 said:

Arc said:

I am just thinking , may we have another try with startup repair with marking C as active ?

Too late Arc,I already started windows installation.

Any helpful suggestions?

The registry entry for when the "dirty bit" is set to run chkdsk is:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
BootExecute = autocheck autochk *

Windows tries to find autochk.exe using the system variable path and thats set with another variable "
%SystemRoot%\system32"
If Windows boots as the wrong letter that would become: wrong letter\Windows\System32\autochk.exe
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Arc · 25 Jul 2012

christin91 said:

Arc said:

I am just thinking , may we have another try with startup repair with marking C as active ?

Too late Arc,I already started windows installation.

Any helpful suggestions?

Never let the number of primary partitions go more than four.

When the installation and activation is done, do it : Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup . In future, it will save you from recurring such a situation.

Anyway, all well that ends well :)

christin91 · 25 Jul 2012

Arc said:

christin91 said:

Arc said:

I am just thinking , may we have another try with startup repair with marking C as active ?

Too late Arc,I already started windows installation.

Any helpful suggestions?

Never let the number of primary partitions go more than four.

When the installation and activation is done, do it : Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup . In future, it will save you from recurring such a situation.

Anyway, all well that ends well :)

That means I need to keep a backup dvd of the whole laptop besides having HP Recovery dvd's.

Tomorrow I'll post screenshot of how my disk management now looks.Do help me create new partitions & shrink C drive as much as I want.