Also remember that windows itself will write to the hard disk (swap file) from time to time. temporary disable win95's management of virual memory during scandisk. Richard Quilhot ----- Original Message ----- >Jun Qian wrote: > >1) while in win95, scandisk can never finish Thorough scan, because it >says something running and write on HD, but there is no harddisk >activity except scandisk, the only thing running all the time is volume >control. however, i boot from A: drive and run scandisk, it shows >nothing wrong. what's wrong? > ----- PCBUILD mailing list - http://nospin.com Bob Wright:[log in to unmask] - Drew Dunn:[log in to unmask]