HELP please-xp crash

[Briab Guy]

I just reformatted this a month ago and do not feel like doing it again.
I'll keep it short.
When I boot I get this message:
AUTOCHK program not found. Skipping autocheck.
Then it goes back to the boot screen, I am dual booting with Vista.
What is AUTOCHK, and how do I get it fixed or past it.
I have yet to try a repair with xp disk. I wanted to find out what it was first.
Thanks
B

[glc]

That's the precursor to CHKDSK. Your hard drive has errors and you need to run CHKDSK in one of the Fix modes.

Why are you using a beta operating system when you don't want to reformat? If you want to play that game, you have to accept these things.

[Briab Guy]

well, the beta is on the other partiton, which i expected to have trouble with.
i used a tool called PTedit to fix the atochk problem. A lot of ppl seem to be having the same trouble. Weather true or not, some ppl are blaming a windows hot fix--Windows XP HotFix: KB824105.

I guess everyone is different, everytime I get in a jam, I don't look to reformating as the only fix.
or that is all I'd be doing. the partiton was hidden, and all I had to do was select the appropriate partition type. Much faster then formating. But eh, I'm the one asking for help, not giving it.
B