Completely spastic newbie here.

I tried to run a defrag and it won't do it until I run a scandisk because there are errors on the drive. When I run the scandisk I have two problems:

1. It keeps restarting - seems as though something is RUNNING in the background and allocating files

2. It eventually freezes my computer - never at the same point twice.

Can you please help me to determine what is running in the background and also if the errors on the hard drive are something I can FIX myself?

Thanks!Can you run it in safe mode?Which OPERATING system are you using?Windows ME.

I put the computer into safe mode and the scandisk worked, (yay! thanks for that suggestion) saying that it found no errors. I then tried to run the defrag again but it still says the disk has errors. I ran it without checking for errors and it completed, but I'm concerned that I still have errors on the drive.

Also, I get errors every now and again or the computer freezes and I have to reboot.

Thanks so much for your helpWhat errors......Run defrag in safe mode checking for errors.Disable SCREENSAVER..........and run defrag..........disk clean-up........how did  you shutdown the system......? scan for virus worms etc.....defrag will run......it has nothing to do with scandisk.....That was for scandisk, now he has a defrag problem.
It's probably power settings, screen saver or some crappy software running in the background.

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That was for scandisk, now he has a defrag problem.
It's probably power settings, screen saver or some crappy software running in the background.

VB for me!   (Victoria Bitter)