I tried to run scandisk and i restarted the computer so that it could run, but i keep getting an "Unable to open drive for direct access" message. Now i can neither run scandisk nor can i restart my ...

What happens if you run "chkdsk /f /x"? (The /X forces the volume to dismount first.)<BR><BR>You probably have a service running off the drive and so scandisk can't get access because Windows itself ...