Having problems defragmenting my hard drive.?

Question

Ok, so I'm trying to defrag my hard drive, but it keeps giving me this notice saying "Disk Defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: (C:). Please run Chkdsk /f."

I have no idea what to do. I just installed Avast 4.8 home Edition, does that have anything to do with it? please answer my questions, thank you! ^_^

Answer 1

This is for Windows XP:

Start --> Run...

Type 'cmd' (without the quotes), then click the 'OK' button. This opens the DOS command-line window.

On the DOS command-line window, type 'chkdsk C: /f' (without the quotes), then hit the 'Enter' key.

Disk checking will start. Wait for disk checking to finish. Once finished, close the DOS command-line window.

Repeat doing defrag again.

Answer 2

open up a command prompt window (hit start, run, and type 'cmd'), and then enter in "chkdsk /f" and follow the instructions.