possibly something running in background.  Try starting in safe mode [turn
off and on and push F8] and start windows in Safe Mode.  Then try to run
scan disk.  As an alternative push F8 start with DOS mode and run scandisk
from the C:> prompt.  See if scan disk runs this way.  If it does,  you've
got something running in the background while windows is operating that does
not show up when you use the "close program" routine.
Hope this helps

Amarker


>From: Gary W South <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [PCBUILD] scandisk restarting
>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:43:53 EDT
>
>A friend has a HP 650 MHz Pentium III running Windows 98. When we try to
>run
>ScanDisk, after it is left for a while, we get a message saying something
>is
>writing to the hard drive and ScanDisk has restarted 10 times. It does not
>complete. By using control-alt-del, I shut down everything running except
>explorer and systray. I still got the same results, saying something was
>writing to the harddrive. What could be writing to the hard drive? Any
>ideas
>would be appreciated.
>
>TIA
>
>Gary South
>
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