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Re: scandisk restarting
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Steve Montgomery <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:03:27 -0700
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Gary,

                At 09:43 PM 07/26/2000 Gary South wrote:
                >A friend has a Pentium III running Windows 98. When we
                >try to run ScanDisk, we get a message saying something
                >is writing to the hard drive and ScanDisk has restarted...

You can go into MSCONFIG (start | run | msconfig) and select the start up
tab.  This tab shows the list of applications that are started when windows
boots.  You can deselect applications by removing the check in check box.
This may help your problem.

Steve Montgomery

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