See the defrag and scandisk troubleshooters located he
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/how_to.html


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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"George Millman" wrote in message
...
After 10 attempts to run ScanDisk, a message states that a
program or application is writing to my hard disk and I
don't know what that program might be. Is it Symantic's
antivirus auto protect? This problem just started a day or
so ago.