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Koala, you are right. Thank you for reminding me. That is what I generally do: close any virus scanner and screensavers prior to scandisk. Sometimes it happens that I forget it. But WinPatrol and SpywareBlaster had never slowed down scandisk, so I mostly left them running.
But is using scandisk in the safe mode only not a bit overcautious? I use the scandisk equivalent "DiskFixer" from the old Ontrack SystemSuite (which is now the VCOM SystemSuite) and the PC utilities contained in that suite are not described in terms as if they were considered to be safe mode utilities. In fact their RegistryDefrag Utility explicitly requires that all other programs have to be closed before starting it, which certainly implies that it is run from within Windows.
If scandisk is not a pure safe mode tool a regular user would want it back in the full Windows mode. The safe mode would only be a temporary solution.
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