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February 24th 05, 04:13 AM
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Something keeps writing to the disk?
How can I find out what is writing to the disk and preventing me from doing
a Scandisk and Defragment? I disabled Norton antivirus and stopped the applications I could see in the system tray on the right lower corner of my screen. I ran AdAware6.0 and still get the error when I try to defrag or Scandisk. What can I do? Hank 
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February 24th 05, 04:17 AM
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CodeStuff Starter will show you the running processes:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/ Process Explorer is another "must have" tool: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.1 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ John Family Man wrote: How can I find out what is writing to the disk and preventing me from doing a Scandisk and Defragment? I disabled Norton antivirus and stopped the applications I could see in the system tray on the right lower corner of my screen. I ran AdAware6.0 and still get the error when I try to defrag or Scandisk. What can I do? Hank
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February 24th 05, 11:08 AM
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See the defrag and scandisk troubleshooters located he
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/how_to.html -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Family Man" wrote in message news:1109218030.542148@ftpsrv1... How can I find out what is writing to the disk and preventing me from doing a Scandisk and Defragment? I disabled Norton antivirus and stopped the applications I could see in the system tray on the right lower corner of my screen. I ran AdAware6.0 and still get the error when I try to defrag or Scandisk. What can I do? Hank
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February 24th 05, 07:50 PM
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Thank you. I'll try that.
Hank
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February 24th 05, 07:54 PM
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Thanks John. Much appreciated.
Hank "John John" wrote in message ... CodeStuff Starter will show you the running processes: http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/ Process Explorer is another "must have" tool: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.1 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ John Family Man wrote: How can I find out what is writing to the disk and preventing me from doing a Scandisk and Defragment? I disabled Norton antivirus and stopped the applications I could see in the system tray on the right lower corner of my screen. I ran AdAware6.0 and still get the error when I try to defrag or Scandisk. What can I do? Hank
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February 24th 05, 09:46 PM
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You're welcome.
John Family Man wrote: Thanks John. Much appreciated. Hank "John John" wrote in message ... CodeStuff Starter will show you the running processes: http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/ Process Explorer is another "must have" tool: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.1 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ John Family Man wrote: How can I find out what is writing to the disk and preventing me from doing a Scandisk and Defragment? I disabled Norton antivirus and stopped the applications I could see in the system tray on the right lower corner of my screen. I ran AdAware6.0 and still get the error when I try to defrag or Scandisk. What can I do? Hank
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February 25th 05, 05:31 PM
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Family Man wrote:
How can I find out what is writing to the disk and preventing me from doing a Scandisk and Defragment? I disabled Norton antivirus and stopped the applications I could see in the system tray on the right lower corner of my screen. I ran AdAware6.0 and still get the error when I try to defrag or Scandisk. What can I do? Turned off any screen saver? -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
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#8
February 26th 05, 06:05 PM
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search on google and download 'enditall'
very useful tool "Family Man" wrote in message news:1109218030.542148@ftpsrv1... How can I find out what is writing to the disk and preventing me from doing a Scandisk and Defragment? I disabled Norton antivirus and stopped the applications I could see in the system tray on the right lower corner of my screen. I ran AdAware6.0 and still get the error when I try to defrag or Scandisk. What can I do? Hank
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