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    I've had this happen a lot to me when something is running in the
background that periodically accesses the hard drive.  It's a royal pain
because every time it does, scandisk has to restart.  There were two ways I
finally got around it.  One was to use the ctrl-alt-delete buttons to bring
up the task manager and kill every process that was running except explorer
and systray.  The next way, and probably the better way, is to boot in DOS
mode and run it from there (providing you've got a DOS copy of scandisk
available).

Richard Star wrote in message ...
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>I've had the same problem with defrag in the past.
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> I think turning off virtual memory because everytime the system wrote
>something to the swap file, defrag would detect it, and would restart. I
>don't think this should apply to scandisk.
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>  I recently saw a recommendation from someone: to run scandisk in safe
>mode. That way there will be a minimum of programs running that might
>conflict.
> good luck
> RJ
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