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I recently found myself in a predicament where my machine, running WinXP SP2, froze during a compile. Not an altogether unique event. I did what I usually do in situations like this; I took a long overdue coffee break hoping that things would work out by the time I returned. After returning 20 minutes later found that the probability of the compile ever completing on its own was approaching zero so I did what I am loath to do; I pressed the reset button. What distinguished this occasion from numerous other similar experiences is that this time when Windows tried to start it informed me that the disk appeared damaged and that I should run chkdsk /f to try to correct the problem.

Fair enough, I did interrupt the operating system midstream and had probably caused corruption which hopefully chkdsk could resolve. Then I became aware of my dilemma, how can I run chkdsk when the operating system will not run. Not to worry, I can take a disk from another machine, boot and execute chkdsk /f on the corrupt disk. To test the theory I installed, actually just put the disk on a bench next to the machine and connected the cables to it, the other disk with operating system installed on it. The machine booted and my hopes were buoyed until I shutdown and connected the corrupt disk as a slave drive. When I tried to boot again I ended up with the “blue screen of death” again recommending that a disk (it didn’t specify which) was corrupt and instructing me to run chkdsk /f to try to recover.

Does anyone know how I can approach this problem?

Is there anything I could have done differently, with the exception of taking a longer coffee break?

Looking to the future I would like to set up a second disk on my development machine and, as part of the shutdown process, backup whatever I have modified to the other disk. That way I will only loose the current session’s modifications if something like this happens again.

I know that if I put an entry in HKLM/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run the application will run when the user logs on. Is there any registry entry I can make to run a utility when I shutdown the machine?



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