Goto www.GRC.com and get spinrite - it will save your disk in time for you
to get a new HDD and replace your existing one.

"Craig" <Craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:68FBA5C7-E6DD-4CB0-B52C-FE07336D0D5A@microsoft.com...
> This Tablet Pc is running Microsoft XP Tablet edition, pretty clow to
> start
> with but lately even slower, tried to defrag but an error message came up.
> Defragmentation of (C:) has been aborted due to inconsistencies that were
> detected in the filesystem. Please run CHKDSK or SCANDSK on (C:) to repair
> these inconsistencies, then run Disk Defragmenter again.
> I ran CHKDSK and and error check, but i don't know how to run SCANDISK
> properly so this message just keeps coming up.