Scandisk Keeps Restarting - Comments Page 1

I'm still happily living in the stone age with W98 SE, but get the same problem. Restarting the computer in Safe Mode does the trick for me.

Press ctrl + alt and del and close all running programs and make sure that you put a tick in the box to repair auto and run on full scan... Remember to disable your antivirus too.

You could also click on the Start button, and leave the mouse there. As long as the Start menu is on the screen, the screen saver won't start. It's a lot easier than trying to remember to re-enable your screen saver.

I've read the easiest way to run scandisk and defrag is to do it in "Safe Mode". Just my 2 cents....

Simplest method to avoid the continued restart during scan disc & defrag is to run both in safe mode.. That should avoid anything writting to the hard drive and any other problems happening while doing this system maintainance..

This is from my former web sites tips and tricks section, in the near future I'll be starting a new site with all the info I've compiled.

Problems running ScanDisk & Defrag in Windows Me

If you're having problems with scandisk or defrag and it stalls at 10% or 30% along with a message that something is writing to the drive, to run it successfully:

1. Go to Start, Run and type msconfig, click open.

2. Click on the General tab, uncheck all items listed under Selective Startup (make sure that Selective Startup is selected).

3. Click apply then OK and restart Windows.

4. This will start Windows with only the basics running; insures that nothing will interfere with either scandisk or defrag.

5. Run either scandisk or defrag, when done, go into msconfig and select Normal Startup or the configuration your machine was running on previously and restart Windows.

I found that there are othe SPYWARE programs that can stop your scan disk too. Cleaning those off may help. You could also try turning off all the stuff that starts up at start. At least long enough to scan then turn it back on.

If in windows XP: Go to Start/Run, type msconfig, press enter, click tab where it says start up, click disable all. After reboot try your scan disk. Once done you can always go back to msconfig and re-enable your apps.

My scandisk kept restarting until I started disconnecting my cable modem while I ran it. The odd thing is that it worked for a long time with it connected, then suddenly it... didn't.

I'm still stuck with Win '98 also. Before I run Scandisk and/or Defrag I run EndItAll. The old version, 1.0.0.33, dated August 1, 1999. I leave it at the defaults, and it closes down just about everything not necessary to keep the computer running.

I then run Scandisk and Defrag with no restarts. There is a later version of EndItAll, but it takes a bit more to figure out what to have it stop. All versions of EndItAll are no longer supported, but I use the early one anyway. When I've finished with the scan & defrag I reboot.

On several machines at work, I've had to run scandisk from the autoexec.bat file (Win95). Add the line, "scandisk C: /f" to the autoexec.bat file.