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George Millman
May 14th 04, 03:56 PM
After 10 attempts to run ScanDisk, a message states that a
program or application is writing to my hard disk and I
don't know what that program might be. Is it Symantic's
antivirus auto protect? This problem just started a day or
so ago.

Ron Badour
May 14th 04, 05:33 PM
See the defrag and scandisk troubleshooters located here:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/how_to.html


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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"George Millman" > wrote in message
...
> After 10 attempts to run ScanDisk, a message states that a
> program or application is writing to my hard disk and I
> don't know what that program might be. Is it Symantic's
> antivirus auto protect? This problem just started a day or
> so ago.

Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17 Left ; for Email
May 14th 04, 07:20 PM
On Fri, 14 May 2004 07:56:34 -0700, "George Millman" >
wrote:

>After 10 attempts to run ScanDisk, a message states that a
>program or application is writing to my hard disk and I
>don't know what that program might be. Is it Symantic's
>antivirus auto protect? This problem just started a day or
>so ago.


Scandisk and Defrag are memory intensive applications, you won't get a good
or faster job, if you have applications running that don't need to be
running, screen savers should be turned off. Save time by running
defrag/scandisk in Safe Mode.

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Sincerely,

Andrew H. Carter

Dave
May 18th 04, 05:54 PM
I have this problem. I have disabled all screensavers,
standby/power saving timers, and deactivated everything
in MSCONFIG ... to no avail.

Try asking Jeeves for some other software
(www.ask.co.uk). There's loads of freee utilities out
there on the net - the only problem is finding them.


>-----Original Message-----
>After 10 attempts to run ScanDisk, a message states that
a
>program or application is writing to my hard disk and I
>don't know what that program might be. Is it Symantic's
>antivirus auto protect? This problem just started a day
or
>so ago.
>.
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