[LI] Scandisk

[Shourya Sarcar <sarcar@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Panchal,
	The first thing you should appreciate is that this
is a list for discussions on Linux and your request for
help with Windows might not be taken well by many die hard
Linux fanatics on this list, quite justifiably so.

	There are lots of Windows related newsgroups where
your Question would make sense and probably better answered.

	However, to answer your query...
	Windows is a multi tasking OS and has many
processes running at the same time. Pressing
CTRL+ALT+DELETE does not show all the processes running..
and Win 95 has nothing analogous to 'ps' (NT has a
Task Manager). So despite your best results, you may not be
able to stop all processes from writing to the disk.  The
question is why on earth should processes continuously keep
writing to the disk.. which would logically render Scandisk
ineffective. IF you hdd has developed physical damages,
what might happen is the following. 
	A process X tries to write onto the disk whereby it fails,
not being able to write the whole data and keeps on trying
continously.. resetting the disk clean bit everytime. If
scandisk is also running at this time, it will continously
sample the disk clean bit and fail, seeing that a write
has been made.

	So, a POSSIBLE explanation is that youve got a
cranked hdd.. although THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE ONLY REASON.
WINDOWS HAS HER OWN SWEET REASONS FOR DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE
!!

	How old is your comp and what hdd are you using ?

Sorry, if I sound rude..
Regards
Shourya

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Shourya Sarcar 	       <sarcar@xxxxxxxx> 
<Tel:91-033-4710477> Department of Computer Science and
Engineering Jadavpur University    Calcutta, India 700 032

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