I occasionally run scandisk on the computers I use at work. They restart many times until I eventually get a message about whether or not I want to keep receiving the "Scandisk has restarted..." message. When I click NO it continues without need of further input from me.

The work computers are connected to a network, which is why they are always starting scandisk again and again.  Is your Internet connection active when you're running the program?

Running scandisk from safe mode loads the bare minimum so you shouldn't have to go in and manually close out anything else.

roadijeff

I recently got comcast internet,but when I did the scandisk and defrag I unplugged the cable for the cable router so I dont think this would be causing the possible problem.

Thanks

Hi

  Tap the F8 key as your computer boots up,  Select safe mode, then hit enter.  once your in safe mode try the Scandisk, and defrag, should work.  Anti-virus and firewalls can keep writing to your drive, causing the problems you mentioned.

                                                                                Vince

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