Scan won't scan disk

[Don Green]

My computer won't allow me to do a scan of my disk. It keeps trying and re-trying for hours now. It says that some other program is trying to access the disk. I have shut down all the startups in the lower right hand corner of the windows screen. I have rebooted numerous times. Same result. I am running Windows 98. I have a Gateway 350MHz Pentium II computer with 256 MB Ram and a 10GB IDE Type 47 disk drive. Someone please help me out!

 

[Paul Nagel]

Standard thing to happen when you have other programs running in the backround. Try again after shutting down all programs such as Antivirus, Screen Savers, etc... Go to ctrl+alt+del and End Task everything except Explorer and Systray. If that does not work, reboot into Safe Mode and try it again.