CRCDISK.SYS ERROR argh!!

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Penalt

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I am running Vista Home on an 3yr old Acer laptop. I cannot boot to windows at all. Everytime I try the boot stalls out at the loading bar. When I boot in safe mode I can see that the boot is hanging at 'crcdisk.sys'. Apparently this was a bit of a problem in the past.

As Vista was preloaded on the system I have no boot disc. The recovery partition was wrecked last year then I altered my partitions on the machine. There was some information on the net about deleting a series of files in the system32, drivers and other sections. Rather than deleting them, I renamed them to no effect. I have also tried altering the SATA setting in my bios, also to no effect.

I do have linux on the system as well and I can boot to that, which is how I am using the computer to access these forums. I need help solving this error. Much thanks in advance.....
 

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Can you run the linux equivalent of chkdsk?
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Compaq/SR5130NX
    CPU
    AMD AthlonTM 64x2 3800+
    Memory
    4 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo Thinkpad T400
    CPU
    Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53GHz
    Motherboard
    LENOVO 64734VM
    Memory
    2.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 531MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    Intel Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family
    Sound Card
    Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15 inch
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 800
    Hard Drives
    1x 180GB Intel 530 series SSD 1 x 120GB Hitachi 5400rmp 1 x 650GB Western Digital Elements 5400rpm 1x 1Tb Western Digital Elements 5400rpm
    Internet Speed
    Medium for New Zealand
    Other Info
    Weakest part of my computer is the graphics chipset. Only ever used a laptop. Also use USB Freeview TV Card Lenovo Docking Station External Speakers Other bits a pieces as needed
Created the disc and used the error fixing on it. I am able to boot to Safe Mode now, but that is all. The system still hangs when attempting a boot in normal mode. Is there anyway to do a chkdsk/f ? I've tried to do it but the system will not let me while I am running on C: which is where windows lives.

So some progress but still no joy. Oh, also tried using a restore point but that has also failed.
 

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Can you boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Compaq/SR5130NX
    CPU
    AMD AthlonTM 64x2 3800+
    Memory
    4 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE
I was able to get a chkdsk /f to fire up via my recovery disc. Chkdsk said that the volume was corrupted and it had been repaired. But now I can't even boot to Safe Mode.
 

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Update. Was able to convince it to boot back in Safe Mode, once I got in ran msconfig and used 'original boot configuration' setting. The system will now consistently boot. But no networking or sound or 95% of services.
 

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