Can Scandisk corrupt Windows Startup files?

[Justas]

Restarted a machine and let it do its little drive scan before it went into Windows. It found a lot of errors... but apparently corrected them all and restarted.

However, after it restarted, it would do the Windows XP loading then goto the blue background for the Windows XP domain log in and just restart.

Is this an error caused by maybe some corrupt system files? Or maybe a failing hard drive I didn't catch in time? Normally when ever I see windows start up files are corrupt it will not get passed the loading screen. It does the same in Safe mode.

The only thing I can think this would be is software or failing hard drive. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[DigeratiPrime]

sounds like winlogon might have been broken in some manner. was this machine infected with malware? you can try going back to "last known good configuration".

[RJARRRPCGP]

Restarted a machine and let it do its little drive scan before it went into Windows. It found a lot of errors... but apparently corrected them all and restarted.

However, after it restarted, it would do the Windows XP loading then goto the blue background for the Windows XP domain log in and just restart.

Is this an error caused by maybe some corrupt system files? Or maybe a failing hard drive I didn't catch in time?

It appears that sometimes, Chkdsk makes things on the HDD worse!

So if you need to recover data, please use another utility!

But, installing the wrong IDE or SCSI driver (not for your chipset) can cause the symptoms you have.

Chkdsk probably would only make things worse in that case!

A long story, but I had an incident in July, 2003 reguarding my Asus A7N266-VM/AA motherboard, which was my newest DIY PC build at that time.

Shame on you, Nvidia, you wasn't straight! Didn't warn me that the IDE driver is for nForce2 only!

The Asus A7N266-VM/AA is nForce 1-based.

After installing that IDE driver, on reboot, Windows crashed with STOP: 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE then after I rebooted, Chkdsk ran and it reported orphaned files then I couldn't stop it!

Afterwards, I discovered that random files were gone, some recent pictures and AVI files taken with

my Creative PC Cam 300 were gone!

Edited December 2, 2007 by RJARRRPCGP