scandisk help

[39smooth]

hi

wondering if anyone could shed some light on this problem. whenever i try and run scandisk on my comp it continually restarts until finally after 10times displays the message that scandisk cannot run due to a program continually writing data to the harddrive. i use to combat this by restarting in safe mode and running it from there but now that has ceased to work with same problem.

I use ctrl+alt+del to close all running applications except systray and explorer but that doesn't work either. I don't have antivirus running nor any download managers or anything like that.

Any ideas coz it driving me nuts. Defrag fails because of the same problem.

cheers

[39smooth]

guess no one knows anything on this then,

anyone know anywhere else i could try?

cheers

[tetonbob]

Are you on broadband? Disconnect your cable/DSL modem and then try in safe mode. Also disable any screensavers.

Have you run updated AV to eliminate that possiblity?

Try: http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

or http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

for a free online scan. Also download, update and then run Adaware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

and Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

HTH

[Alan Boisvert]

39 smooth, I have the exact same problem as u,I haven't been able to scandisk for along time ,by the Defrag just quit working about a month ago, Nothing I try helps, I am also running Windows ME. I'am at a loss.