In addition to doing scans for Trojans and spyware with up to date programs
as AlmostBob recommended, 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



"Tassie" wrote in message
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Maintenance/defragmentation scandisk, keeps continually restarting. then a

message says: "scan disk has restarted 10 times because windows or some

other program is writing to this drive" I have no programs running and
can't

fathom what can be wrong.

Defragmentation scanning can't even start now.

Does any one have some idea of how I can solve this please?
Thanks.