If the system is otherwise working, I would first increase the physical 
RAM to at LEAST 1 GB. Go for more if your motherboard will accept it up 
to 4GB. The performance should increase significantly. Then you can 
address the other issues much more expeditiously.

Try running a scan disk again and, if necessary, use Safe Mode. Set the 
scan disk for automatic repair. Then do a Clean Disk and defragmentation.

Please let us know how it goes.

Tom

Reggkay wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having something going on with my hard drive and was wondering if 
> you could tell me what to do about it.  Saturday I uninstalled 
> Microsoft office and then attempted to reinstall it.  It gave me an 
> error and said that one of the installation files was already on my 
> hard drive.  So per Microsoft I renamed the old file and installation 
> proceeded normally.  I ran my Saturday maintence of spybot/windows 
> update/etc. and then I defragged.  Thats when it came up with a 3.33 
> gb fragment.  It also showed that there were 29 other fragments of 
> various sizes.  The computer during this time slowed to a crawl.  So 
> today I thought I would rerun defragmenter and the results were that 
> it gave me one huge fragment of 3.34 gb of owner\application.  I 
> restarted and tried to run scan disk and it took 2 seconds and booted 
> into windows.  Any ideas of what is going on here?  Suggestions on 
> what to try?
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Regina Long
> Sapulpa
> Windows XP Pro version 2002
> 112 GB hard drive
> AMD athlon 64 Processor 4000+
> 2.39 GHz, 448 MB of Ram
>
>        

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