corrupt after every clean install

After three clean installs a scf /scannow is always reporting that autochk.exe is corrupt and can't be fixed. This has prevented any scheduled check disk events from executing at boot.

The weird thing is, after the fourth clean install but BEFORE i finished the Dell media direct install, I ran a scannow and it found no integrity problems. After installing media direct and all the drivers, scannow reported autochk.exe being corrupt again.

I'm not sure if it's related to Media Direct or some other driver, but even though autochk.exe is supposedly corrupt, scheduled chkdsks are running now. Running scf /verifyfile on autochk.exe, reports no problems as well. Any ideas? Is scannow reporting a false report?

 

I thought you were supposed to install media direct before the OS?

 

I created the partitions with the media direct CD before installing OS. I then installed Vista, then re-inserted the media direct CD and installed that, then I started getting corrupt files.

 

Have you looked at this?

 

I was having problems with corrupted files before too, lasted through 2 reformats until the 3rd time i completely wiped the drive using seatools (it was a seagate drive and basically zero filled it) after that i have had no issues. I did NOT reinstall media direct though, i got rid of that the second it arrived at my door step

 

Interesting. So was it seatools that fixed the problem or not installing media direct that did it? Also, what happens when you push on your media direct button now?

 

Just got off the phone with XPS support. According to them the scf command is for XP not Vista and they said I shouldn't trust any reports from /scannow when running on Vista. If this is the case, why have the command available on the Vista OS? This still hasn't remedied the fact that a scheduled disk won't run on my computer.