Ok, heres the problem.

I try to run scandisk, then after thats all done I run defrag.

The problem is, like last night, I went to run scandisk, it kept starting over, and over, and never got anywhere.
It gives you that message, scandisk has restarted 10 times because another program is in use..blah..blah..blah.

I have gone into msconfig and unchecked everything in "startup" and do the ctrl/alt/del and shut down anything else that may be running, but still over and over and over it just keeps resetting and starting over.

Whats the deal?
Thanks in advance.

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Man — every man — is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Ayn Rand

did u have the screen saver on?

ok, make sure screensaver, virus scanners, firewalls, and all other programs are not running. If any program is running, it will keep starting over.

No screensaver, I shut everything down.

When I hit ctrl/alt/del the only things running are explorer and systray. Ive even tried it with shutting them down but its the same old thing.

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Man — every man — is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Ayn Rand

Hmm, do you have a virus scanner? Have you done a full scan? Sounds like something may be memory resident. (not a running program, like when you ctrl/alt/del but is resident in the memory...)

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Manu Narayan

Hmm it always helps to reboot in that case and try to clean out the running progs. But I have a feeling you have done that already. http://discussanything.com/Ubb/wink.gif

Done it, done that.

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Man — every man — is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Ayn Rand

Are you running NT? If so does the event log show anything?

Win 98

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Man — every man — is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Ayn Rand

Do you have compression turned on? Also have you tried running it from safe mode? Check for a file called Flcss.exe if it is there you may have the fun love virus.

Dont know about compression, its probably however the computer came. I dont ever recall changing anything about compression.
How would I check for that?
And,
Do I want compression on or off?

How do I get it in safe mode?
I gotta hit some Fkeys or something like that right?

Looked for that file, no dice, no love bug.



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Man — every man — is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Ayn Rand

How long do you leave it alone before you try to restart it? For me, it takes about 10 minutes to really get going, then I leave it alone until it is done.

If I am reading your question correctly, I turn it on and let it go...Sheesh, I let it go all night long and when I checked it the next day, it was still at the beginning checking folders and all the initial stuff.
Grrrrrrrrrr.

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Man — every man — is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Ayn Rand

Check out this Q article on support.microsoft.com - Q222469

[This message has been edited by Oz (edited 08-08-2001).]

[This message has been edited by Oz (edited 08-08-2001).]

And Bill, you did check for virsues right? This sounds liek a memory resident one or something.

Are your virus definitons up to date?

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Manu Narayan

Yes, up to date and no viruses

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Man — every man — is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Ayn Rand

the only time i have ever had problems with that is when i was trying to install USB on my Win95 box. boy what a B*TCH that was. it ran for about 18 hours before it completed. i have never run into that problem with anything Win98 and up. if you have some sort of energy saving on where the hard drives turn off after a certain amount of time that might be it but i doubt it. do you REALLY need to do this anyways ?

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