ScanDisk restart error

Hi everyone,

Last night I decided to do a "thorough" Scandisk on my computer and let it
fix any errors it found. I know that this can take a very long time, so I
disabled my screensaver, started ScanDisk, shut off my monitor and happliy
went off to bed. Alas, when I awoke in the morning, I expected to see a
ScanDisk report on my screen. Instead, I saw "ScanDisk has restarted 10
times due to information being written to the hard drive. Do you wish to
disable programs and continue running Scandisk?". (or something very close
to that) I had nothing running other than Norton Firewall and Virus
protection in the background. Could this be the culprit? Thanks.

--
Paul
Cleveland, Ohio

Cari
Sat Aug 02 17:11:49 CDT 2003

Antivirus running in realtime will do that every time. Disable it (as long
as your PC isn't connected to the internet at the time). But don't forget
to turn it back on again afterwards.

You can use Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut down everything but Explorer and Systray
(they MUST be running) and then use ScanDisk.

Cari
www.coribright.com

"Paul" <pavecc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:eUhsVAUWDHA.1940@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi everyone,
>
> Last night I decided to do a "thorough" Scandisk on my computer and let it
> fix any errors it found. I know that this can take a very long time, so I
> disabled my screensaver, started ScanDisk, shut off my monitor and happliy
> went off to bed. Alas, when I awoke in the morning, I expected to see a
> ScanDisk report on my screen. Instead, I saw "ScanDisk has restarted 10
> times due to information being written to the hard drive. Do you wish to
> disable programs and continue running Scandisk?". (or something very
close
> to that) I had nothing running other than Norton Firewall and Virus
> protection in the background. Could this be the culprit? Thanks.
>
> --
> Paul
> Cleveland, Ohio
>
>

Paul
Sat Aug 02 20:54:48 CDT 2003

yes, this is the case. I will disconnect my cable modem and disable virus
and firewall protection and try again. Thanks for the answers.

"heirloom" <heirloom@nospamatall.com> wrote in message
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> A constant on connection, i.e. cable modem or DSL can cause
restarts....try
> disabling the connection, if this is the case. Otherwise, run your
Scandisk
> from the Safe Mode and you shouldn't have any probs.
> Heirloom, old and runnin'
>
> "Paul" <pavecc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:eUhsVAUWDHA.1940@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Last night I decided to do a "thorough" Scandisk on my computer and let
it
> > fix any errors it found. I know that this can take a very long time, so
I
> > disabled my screensaver, started ScanDisk, shut off my monitor and
happliy
> > went off to bed. Alas, when I awoke in the morning, I expected to see a
> > ScanDisk report on my screen. Instead, I saw "ScanDisk has restarted 10
> > times due to information being written to the hard drive. Do you wish
to
> > disable programs and continue running Scandisk?". (or something very
> close
> > to that) I had nothing running other than Norton Firewall and Virus
> > protection in the background. Could this be the culprit? Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Paul
> > Cleveland, Ohio
> >
> >
>
>