I have some program running in background that writes to hard
disk continuously, even with all programs shut down except
explorer and systray. Because of this, scandisk will not
run, even on startup. Both scandisk and defrag must
restart every few seconds. How can I find and eliminate
this program? I tried restarting in "safe mode" and still get the error that
scan disk restarted 10 times. I have McAffee virus and fire wall running.
Nothing shows a virus. I don't know what else to try. Can anyone help.

Perform your scandisk in Safe Mode.

Dave



"Sheldon Minkon" <sminkon@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
news:20031112111249.29167.00000069@mb-m12.aol.com...
| I have some program running in background that writes to hard
| disk continuously, even with all programs shut down except
| explorer and systray. Because of this, scandisk will not
| run, even on startup. Both scandisk and defrag must
| restart every few seconds. How can I find and eliminate
| this program? I tried restarting in "safe mode" and still get the error that
| scan disk restarted 10 times. I have McAffee virus and fire wall running.
| Nothing shows a virus. I don't know what else to try. Can anyone help.

See below
He said he'd tried that!
See below

That could well be your problem.
Try stopping (or disabling if that's what they call it)
your antivirus software and your firewall - after all you
will be off-line, won't you? (unplug broadband)
After you've succeeeded in fixing (scandisk) and
defragging, investigate why your AV and/or firewall are
writing to disk so often. They may be builing huge
logfiles, which may be a major cause of your disk congestion.
By the way, AV is barely worthwhile this year, with viruses
propagating much more rapidly than they can be recognised
and now mostly targetting XP. Also, a firewall is of very
little value with WinME which doesn't have nearly as many
useable loopholes for hackers as WinXP. Just be careful out
there and you don't need either.

Get the free ScanDefrag. It is the most advanced disk maintenance
program there is. It runs Disk Cleanup, ScanDisk, and Disk
Defragmenter. It's easy to setup and use, and it can deal with
problems like "drive's contents have changed: restarting...".
Get it and read about all the options it has that you can use.
http://home.earthlink.net/~bblanton2...efrag/main.htm
http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html

It is not unusual to see Defrag restart a number of times.
It is , however, unusual to see ScanDisk restart.
This is why I suggest starting it at bedtime and letting it run overnight.
Please, email "The ScanDefrag Team" if you have any problems using our program. Your problem, will be properly attended to. And we assure you, that every attempt will be made to resolved it..
To see how to email us, read the ScanDefrag "Readme" file, using ScanDefrag under the "Help" menu.

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8O)
Koldbear
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"Sheldon Minkon" <sminkon@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message news:20031112111249.29167.00000069@mb-m12.aol.com...

Sheldon:

I missed the fact you already tried Safe Mode -- sorry for that.

Have you tried booting from a Win98 Emergency Boot Disk and using SCANDISK in DOS ?

Dave



"Sheldon Minkon" <sminkon@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
news:20031112111249.29167.00000069@mb-m12.aol.com...
| I have some program running in background that writes to hard
| disk continuously, even with all programs shut down except
| explorer and systray. Because of this, scandisk will not
| run, even on startup. Both scandisk and defrag must
| restart every few seconds. How can I find and eliminate
| this program? I tried restarting in "safe mode" and still get the error that
| scan disk restarted 10 times. I have McAffee virus and fire wall running.
| Nothing shows a virus. I don't know what else to try. Can anyone help.

I have the identical problem Sheldon reported. ScanDefrag
is a neat program, but it is helpless in overriding the
background program periodically writing to disk. Unless
we can find and eliminate the program, scandisk and defrag
won't run without endless restarts. Can it be something
embedded in Systray?
attended to. And we assure you, that every attempt will
be made to resolved it..

Email the ScanDefrag team along with a copy of the log file created by ScanDefrag.
Open ScanDefrag and click "Help".

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- The ScanDefrag Team -
Koldbear

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