Can anyone help? Recently it's taking longer and longer
to defrag my hard drive - it keeps stopping and going
right back to the beginning again. Lately it tells me
there are errors on my disk, but when I tried to use
scandisk to correct these it does the same as Defrag and
just keeps restarting. After 10 tries a message pops
up "Windows or another program has been writing to this
drive." The thing is I don't have another program
running. How can I find out which program is running, and
how can I resolve my problem if I can't trace the program?

/Martin P/ said:

> Can anyone help? Recently it's taking longer and longer
> to defrag my hard drive - it keeps stopping and going
> right back to the beginning again. Lately it tells me
> there are errors on my disk, but when I tried to use
> scandisk to correct these it does the same as Defrag and
> just keeps restarting. After 10 tries a message pops
> up "Windows or another program has been writing to this
> drive." The thing is I don't have another program
> running. How can I find out which program is running, and
> how can I resolve my problem if I can't trace the program?

There is no SCANdisk on XP. You used CHKDSK /f perhaps?

In Windows Explorer, right-click the c:\ drive. Click PROPERTIS|TOOLS tab
and in the error checking box, click CHECK NOW. Then reboot.

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