Scandisk restarts and never completes checking the hard drive

Question

Scandisk restarts and never completes checking the hard drive.

Cause

This issue is caused when other programs or files are being accessed in the background as scandisk is being ran. If scandisk detects any file change while being ran it will restart.

Answer

To resolve this issue make sure all other applications and TSR's are closed.

If doing this does not resolve your issue you can also run scandisk through Safe Mode.