It reaches step 4/5 and gets frozen at 0%, and has been acting very strange today. I havent done anything with it that I normally wouldnt, and its been very slow and not running properly in the past few hours. And now that I try Scandisk, it gets stuck, unable to get past 0% on step 4 out of 5. Can anyone help me? I can't get on my computer if it doesn't finish. These are the kind of thigns Im seeing, "Deleting an index entry, Fixing mirror copy of the such-and-such, Security descriptor verification, CHKDSK is verifying usn journal, usn journal verification complete, CHKDSK is verifying file data, then 0 percent completed", and that's where it's stuck. Also, the computer is VERY hot, it's never been this hot. What should I do about this? It is a Windows XP laptop. I just recently had to reinstall my OS, and it's been running just fine until today.
Go to micsoft.com such support,
Start Computer Management MMC (Compmgmt.msc).
Click Disk Defragmenter.
Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then click Defragment
Or you can
Start Disk Defragmenter MMC (Dfrg.msc).
Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then click Defragment.
I had similar problems with a disk defragmenter program (norton's speed disk) running on an old computer, the defragmentation process would not complete. The fault was caused by bad sectors on the hard drive (it was 5 years old).
Go to micsoft.com such support,
Start Computer Management MMC (Compmgmt.msc).
Click Disk Defragmenter.
Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then click Defragment
Or you can
Start Disk Defragmenter MMC (Dfrg.msc).
Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then click Defragment.