How to run a child window in winforms and minimize it individually?

Hi,

Im quiet new to this situation. I have a winforms project in C# using which i have to perform certain scan operations of the PC.

Now there are 2 forms

1. MainForm

2. ScanForm

There is a button "Scan Now" in MainForm clicking on which a new window(ScanForm) will appear and it will scan for the drives or the directories in the PC.

Now my problem is that when the ScanForm is running im not able to access the MainForm until i close the ScanForm. What i would like to do is that when the user clicks the "Scan Now" button the ScanNow form should run independently, such that i can access the MainForm and do some other tasks.

Im not sure how to go about in this approach. However i know that there might be something really obvious that i would have missed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks