Locking up and NTFS Consistency issue

Howdy,

I have a Dell Dimension 1100 that I use sparingly.
Haven't had any issues with it in about 2 years, but haven't used it much since I got my iPad.

About a month ago, I was using it and it locked up on me.
By "locked up", I mean that I could still move my cursor, but I couldn't click on anything. CTR-ALT-DEL wouldn't respond at all either.
I had to hold my power button for 5 seconds to kill the computer.

Then, when I rebooted, I saw something I have NEVER seen before.
During the bootup sequence, a blue screen appeared and told me that the disk consistency needed to be checked on one of my drives.
A countdown started and then the consistency check was completed.
All of the results looked favorable and there was no mention of a problem in the results text.

So I tried to use the computer again and after about 5 minutes, she locked up again.
I ran CCleaner and Combofix several times...problem still existed.
I did a system restore to a month prior and the problem still existed.
Since these things didn't work, I was thinking that the problem was most likely a hardware issue.

So I went on yahoo and searched for this problem to hopefully to get some potential solutions.
The most common cause of this that I found was a faulty hard drive. Some folks even said that the hard drive might be getting ready to fail.

The thing that is confusing me is that my hard drive is my c: drive.
This disk consistency check is targeting my d: drive.
I only have one hard drive, so I assume my D: drive is a partition of my hard drive.

I have no idea if the locking up problem and the NTFS issues are related, but if not, it was very coincidental that they started at exactly the same time.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Matthew

 

Try running "chkdsk C: /r" without the quotes and including the space between the colon after the C and the forward slash. This specifies you want to check your C drive. If any bad sector(s) are found, chkdsk with the /r flag will try to recover any data in that/those sector(s) and reallocate that/those sector(s) so they're not accessible.

And, yes, if there are errors, it's a sign of imminent disk failure.