Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems at the dwarven bread inn after rescuing Zandalor

If scandisk keeps re-starting, it means that something has changed on the hard drive. Shut down anything running in the background; anti-virus programs, wallpaper changers, email/IM programs, etc.
You should be able to close everything but explorer and systray in the task manager (ctrl-alt-del).