Recently I am getting the following message from my nt server, 'Your file system is FAT, your hard drive may be corrupt, allow AUTOCHK to run'. What is the source of this message and how do I fix it? Also I am now getting 'Dump of Physical Memory etc'.What is causing this and how do I resolve this issue. My computer is partioned with NT server and Windows 98 SE. Thanks for any advice.

Autochk usually runs after the computer has been shut down improperly. Usually if you allow autochk to run, it will quit starting up from then on, until something else causes it to run again. Now if it runs everytime you startup and you allow it to run everytime, then you may be looking at bad sectors on your hard drive. If this is the cause you should use an app like scandisk to do a surface scan on your hard drive to see if it is going bad. If the Autochk and the Dump of physical memory started occuring around the same time, then they are probably related. On the same note, autochk could be initiated BECAUSE of the physical dump, since a memory dump shuts your computer down unexpectedly. Are you able to get into Win2k at all, or does it dump memory everytime? If so, try booting in safe mode. If it allows you into the GUI under safe mode then you could shutdown and startup again to see if autochk will still run. If that works and autochk doesn't run, then you'll know that it has been running because of the memory dumps. The memory dumps could be caused by many things, you should post up any of the "understandable" details that it gives you so that we might be able to narrow down the cause.

Autochk usually runs after the computer has been shut down improperly. Usually if you allow autochk to run, it will quit starting up from then on, until something else causes it to run again. Now if it runs everytime you startup and you allow it to run everytime, then you may be looking at bad sectors on your hard drive. If this is the cause you should use an app like scandisk to do a surface scan on your hard drive to see if it is going bad. If the Autochk and the Dump of physical memory started occuring around the same time, then they are probably related. On the same note, autochk could be initiated BECAUSE of the physical dump, since a memory dump shuts your computer down unexpectedly. Are you able to get into Win2k at all, or does it dump memory everytime? If so, try booting in safe mode. If it allows you into the GUI under safe mode then you could shutdown and startup again to see if autochk will still run. If that works and autochk doesn't run, then you'll know that it has been running because of the memory dumps. The memory dumps could be caused by many things, you should post up any of the "understandable" details that it gives you so that we might be able to narrow down the cause.