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    disk check looping, windows 7, spent whole night w/o solution

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by cslaptop, Nov 29, 2010.

  1. cslaptop

    cslaptop Notebook Consultant

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    Good morning fellow members,

    Life like kidding, as I found myself stuck at disk check looping of windows 7, 5 minutes after my last post here.

    Laptop: m17x R2, win 7, brand new build a week ago.

    This was my situation: after clicking on the "check disk error", it notified me that i needed to restart to perform the check, and I did as it said. And then, it gets into the disk check, it either: 1,freezes at 1 second during the count down process, in which no matter how hard i press any key it won't cancel the disk check; or 2,it starts disk check w/o count down, and everything goes smooth, until it finishes the disk check and restart and says there'll be another "check for consistency on certain disk", and it will always freezes at count down to 1 second.

    So basically, the disk is fine, because the result of the 1st disk says 0 bad sectors or clusters i couldn't remember. And i tried at least 50 times the whole night trying to be patient and lucky so I can go through the second consistency check, while it always freezes at the 2nd check, i.e., the consistency check.

    I tried everything from googling including going into the command prompt under recovery tools to enter lines to edit registry to cancel this scheduled check, but I had no luck. Everytime I successfully changed the related keys i thought that was it, and after the restart it goes into disk check again. So I went into the regedit again, and found that the key was unchanged or simply gone. Now I really don't have any idea what to do anymore.

    I would appreciate any of your input in advance!
     
  2. M17_User

    M17_User Notebook Enthusiast

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    Try booting into safe mode and then shutting down properly.

    Disk check errors normally only occur when the pc isn't shut down right.
     
  3. cslaptop

    cslaptop Notebook Consultant

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    morning ;)

    well, that's why i was like "you gotta be kidding me". I couldn't get into the safe mode. It's stuck at classpnp.sys reading. I also did extensive search on this issue, and it's even more of a mess when it comes to this issue. All kinds of people encountered this issue and just become silent at the end. The only solid resolution from a user that I saw was that he gave up and did a clean install on his OS :(
     
  4. ViolentSeizure

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    I had a similar problem a week ago, I'm not 100% sure if this fixed it, or it went away by itself at the exact same time.

    I booted the laptop with the power cord unplugged, then replugged in just after the bios screen. It actually checked the disk and continued loading windows normally. I had the same continuous loop and freezing for around an hour or so.
     
  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    /chkntfs /x c:

    have you tried that exclude command?
     
  6. cslaptop

    cslaptop Notebook Consultant

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    Mine went away after I gave up after I had spent 10+ hrs to fix it that morning. I was so :mad: that I laughed... But I'm not sure what fixed it either, I had read that peripherals can confuse disk check, so I firstly removed my external keyboard, and after I gave up, I reconnected the keyboard, and pressed space to skip checking, and I got into the system. And after reboot, it asked for D partition check this time, I failed to skip, but it did process through after a few minutes of freezing at 1 sec. Ridiculous incident.

    One of the first things I tried after a bit of search. That command obviously worked but only under repair tool interface: I opened regedit and entered this command, that did remove the string value of checking disk at start in the registry, but after I reboot, it wants to check disk again. And then I got into repair tools to see the registry, the string value is there like nobody has touched it. Looks like I spoiled the computer, and it was being moody, so after I gave up on it and threw it away, it worked out. What a female.

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    Just so you know guys, the safe mode is still bugged, when it says it's loading all the necessary files for safe mode, it freezes at this file classpnp.sys and won't recover whatsoever. Some one met this issue?
     
  7. hakira

    hakira <3 xkcd

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    Had a similar issue once under winxp, except it was worse than refusing to boot safe mode... it wouldn't boot anything at all. Some core dll's got corrupted somehow and I tried copying them directly from the install cd, which didn't help... had to reinstall windows eventually :rolleyes:

    classpnp sounds like it controls plug and play (usb) devices, try unplugging everything that you can, disabling webcam ect.
     
  8. cslaptop

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    ye looks like no one has a clue about this issue. Their classpnp issue come along with some failure to load into windows, but mine did not. So I have no idea how to fix this...
     
  9. tuηay

    tuηay o TuNaY o

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    I would reinstall my OS.