Scan Disk Restarting - Some Possibilities
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Some possibilities for Scan Disk Restarting...And, from what I've seen - I'm not sure that scandisk 'only' restarts on a disk-write. I suspect that it reacts to almost any significant disk activity.
- Scandisk log file (yea, scandisk stops/restarts from its' own activity)
- Antivirus software
- Find Fast or other 'indexer'
- Any task manager/scheduler that may periodically access something on disk (or something running in background - usually as a service).
- If networked, something like SMS that is ALWAYS hogging disk & cpu in background (but barely so!) at the least opportune times...
- Growing/shrinking (or maybe just swapping) windows swap/page file
- Incoming email or something like schedule+
- Some sort of DMI tool (local to the pc or from elsewhere on network), or disk monitoring utility (like 'SMART') that does a check of disk on some schedule or when it 'thinks' system is relatively idle. Some do test-writes or create temp files.
- SNMP agent/client
- If PC has shared resources (disk/printer/modem), activity related to updating the browse-list; or, external access to shared resource.
- If telephony is set to record log of modem activity, almost anything can cause it to write to log.
- Anything similar AOL instant messenger that 'listens' for something specific to appear on net - usually with some kink of disk-based 'hit-list'.
- DHCP activity (renewing lease, etc.)
- Hot-linked DDE/OLE (shared) document updates
- APM activity
good luck!
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