used the xp dvd from gateway. It doesnt work. I pressed R for recovery at the beginning and it will only allow me to FULLY reinstall Xp.This is not at all what the steps on ur tutorial had. In fact I never got to that cmd page. Therefore I still cannot run checkdisk and defrag still doesnt want to run and when i start the computer as mentionned previously I always get that error message that tells me I got raw files and that autocheckcannot run on raw files...then is keeps on booting till my 3 log on...how can I at least for now get rid of that message at the beginning.

Then any other ideas to fix defrag?...what about in safe mode? would that work and if so how do we getin safe mode. I had ME edition before so with this Xp computer im not too at ease. thanks