Defraging Problems!!!

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I have windows XP home and I'm having problems defraging my hard drive.
I have a Western Digital 120 GB HD. Originally tried to defrag my
computer yesterday before I went to work it got to 6% before I left.
When I got home I found that my comp had restarted because of a serious
error. Tried to defrag comp 3 more times, now only gets to 3% then
restarts because of error.
This is the first time I have tried to do this since I got my comp
about 1 1/2 months ago. There's 40 Gb on the HD currently. No other
programs were running when I tried to do this including the screen
saver. Also tried to use chkdisk on friday because of an error and it
wouldn't get past 72% on section 4 of 5. IS my hard drive shot or
what? Please Help!
-AARON


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Goof2003

 

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Probably shot, but :

Boot to the XP setup CD, and press 'r' for recovery console, run the command : CHKDSK /R

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Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
FAQ for MS Antispyware version 1.0.509
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"Goof2003" <Goof2003.1mo1po@pcbanter.net> wrote in message news:Goof2003.1mo1po@pcbanter.net...
>
> I have windows XP home and I'm having problems defraging my hard drive.
> I have a Western Digital 120 GB HD. Originally tried to defrag my
> computer yesterday before I went to work it got to 6% before I left.
> When I got home I found that my comp had restarted because of a serious
> error. Tried to defrag comp 3 more times, now only gets to 3% then
> restarts because of error.
> This is the first time I have tried to do this since I got my comp
> about 1 1/2 months ago. There's 40 Gb on the HD currently. No other
> programs were running when I tried to do this including the screen
> saver. Also tried to use chkdisk on friday because of an error and it
> wouldn't get past 72% on section 4 of 5. IS my hard drive shot or
> what? Please Help!
> -AARON
>
>
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> Goof2003