hello,
i have windows 98 se , and every time i run scandisk it keeps restarting over and over....and then a notice pops up after 10 restarts and it says "some program is writing to this disk" ,please close program so scandisk will finish sooner??

i closed pretty much every program, disabled prgrams..and still it keeps restarting....PLEASE------i gottaa fix this soon..im tired..gotta go 2 bed..any help would be greatly appreciated...


thank thank you

Budd

You could try running scandisk while you are in Safe Mode. Maybe it could help. Or you can boot to DOS with a bootdisk, and run it from there.

*Forgot something. If you don't know how to boot to Safe Mode, then while your computer is booting, press F8, a menu should appear. Choose Safe Mode.

Also, after ending tasks by using ctrl+alt+del , Run DRWATSON.EXE . It will show you everything that is running at that time on the 'tasks' tab. you can also get a program called enditall.

http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall/

I see you are running Win98. Press ctrl+alt+del, (the usual windows three finger salute! :D ) and shut down everything but explorer and systray.
Then run scandisk again, and it should work. :)

well,
thank you all for the help i really appreciate it.I fixed my problem..thanks 2 you guys...much appreciated! :)