Have you read this one?
Bob
My computer has been freezing often when I shut it down. It will not shut down automatically like it usually does. So I would have to turn it off by myself. When I turn it back on it does a scandisk but the scandisk won't scan! A message appears and it says: "ScanDisk har restarted 10 times because Windows or another program has been writing to this drive. Quiting some running programs may enable ScanDisk to finish sooner." It won't scan to see if there are any problems. What do I do? Please help. ThanKs!
Follow the instructions at the link below:
What Do I Do When Scandisk and Defrag Won't Run In Win9.x/ME
Hope this helps.
Grif
Start system in safe mode, disable screen saver and run scandisk, diskdefrag and disk clean up.
Scan system for virus and spy-wawre. See:
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=1313&messageID=15002