I remember a post where the screensaver was the problem (that's more or less a standard procedure, to turn that off) and a very nice one where something from the cable or adsl connection knocked on the door sufficiently hard for scandisk to be troubled. The solution there was to disconnect or turn off the modem.
Better programs than taskmanager to show what's running (don't be surprised: most are system processes): enditall2 (download paid version from www.pcmag.com), msinfo32.exe (a Microsoft program you're likely to have somewhere on your hard disk) and wintop from the windows 95 kernel toys (can be downloaded from Microsoft, and runs in windows 9
. But first try the screensaver and the connection to the bad world outside.
Let us know what you find.
Kees
The other day I got caught up with my W98SE system on bootup telling me that Scandisk hadn't run to completion and that I should run Scandisk in windows as there might still be some bad sectors. Not sure why this happened, since the system shut down normally the previous day and I don't remember running scandisk. At any rate, I ran Scandisk and got the message that Windows or some application was writing to the disk so I rebooted and ran Scandisk in Safe mode. Guess what, I still get that message. So it has to be something in Windows itself doing it. Does anyone have any idea how to go about finding out exactly what is causing this problem? I tried bring up the task list and it says the only thing running is explorer. I guess systray doesn't run in Safe mode. Is there something I could use to track down the culprit? This is really strange. At one time I could run Scandisk in normal mode with no problems and now not even Safe mode works.
BTW, I have Norton SystemWorks, so I did try Disk Doctor (normal mode) and it also gave me a report that something was writing to the disk. So the problem isn't just confined to Scandisk. Anybody have any ideas.
John

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