scandisk and defrag problem

[grain59]

hi...i am having trouble with scandisk and defrag.....when i run scandisk i get the error that it has restarted 10 times because windows or another program is tryin to write to my disk... and disk defragmenter cant even get past zero...obviously something is writing to my disk but i cannot figure out what.....i have disabled all background programs except systray and explorer and the only thing in my toolbar is the sound icon and have screensaver disabled... also i have no antivirus programs installed..i can run sucessfully both scandisk and defrag in safemode with no problem but not in regular boot up... just was wondering if any of you have experienced my problem of something unknown writing to the disk..ty :) if this question was covered alreadly i apologize :-S

[zipulrich]

Are you on cable or DSL?

[grain59]

56k :)

[mike]

Hi,
Use MSCONFIG or CTRL+ALT+DEL to see what is starting up.

Cheers

[grain59]

thx for the info i checked the config again and it was the program...Reg32....that was causing it..unchecked it in the config now it works fine..

[mike]

Hi,
Reg32 piques the curiosity :)

What is Reg32 ?

Cheers

[grain59]

hmm not really sure what reg32 was :(

[mike]

Not a prob,

Go here to download HijackThis:
http://tomcoyote.org/hjt

Download "HijackThis" to a new folder, not a TEMP folder.

When HijackThis opens,click on "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log" button.
Press the "Save Log",,,, save the log to the download folder, and copy/paste the full,
entire log into this thread.

Do not edit, fix anything in the log unless advised....

Can you post the HijackThis log to this thread,please.

We can have a look see, to be safe.

Cheers

[Stigner123]

Another much easier way is just to reboot in safe mode, it's easy, just push F8 or CTRL depending on the computer while it is restarting.