I have this problem. I have disabled all screensavers,
standby/power saving timers, and deactivated everything
in MSCONFIG ... to no avail.

Try asking Jeeves for some other software
(www.ask.co.uk). There's loads of freee utilities out
there on the net - the only problem is finding them.


-----Original 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.
.