For the past week my system keeps freezing up and when I hold the power button to shut down and then re-start the system again the following message shows up “Your Computer will now run a Disk Check on Disk Drive C: To check for consistency” Press any key to stop disk check. It is highly recommended you continue."

After this the system perform stages 1 to 5 and usually takes up to 5 mins

One of the main messages that show’s up is (Then run chkdsk)

After all this the system restarts and all seems fine but then at any moment the system freezes up again

Please help am going crazy and I don’t want to lose all my files

Could this be a virus or do I need to change the hard drive (my laptop is dell)

What is the exact Dell model?

What do you mean by "freeze"? Does it shut down? Does it BSOD? Does it just stop responding?

Try these commands:

Click on the Start menu and open the run dialog.
2. Type "cmd" and return (without quotes)
3. Next type "fsutil dirty query <letter of drive that chkdsk keeps checking>" (for example, C:
4. If the returned message indicates that the volume is dirty, go to step 5
5. Next type "chkdsk <drive letter> /f /x"
If you get this below answer YES.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? <Y/N>
6. After that finishes, repeat step 3.
7. If the volume is no longer dirty, reboot and chkdsk should not reappear.

The "fsutil dirty query" reports the current state of the flag.
"Chkdsk /f" forces Chkdsk to run whether or not the flag is dirty--- it's a way to ensure that errors are fixed, regardless of what the flag says.
"Chkdsk /x" goes a little further and helps ensure that any files that were left open get closed; it actually implies "/f" so you don't need the /f if you're using /x .
With either /f or /x, at the end of the run, Chkdsk should set the flag to clean

Hi jephree

The Model is Dell Inspiron 1520 (windows Vista) the processor is T7250

Stop reponding, yes I could be on the internet or listen to music etc and its stops responding out of the blue and cant do even ctrl alt dlt (it does not switch off by itself).

Could it be a virus I try to download the AVG antivrus and when is about to be installed it said i cant (an error screen came out)

Thanks again i will let you know how did i go with the cleaning check

What was the exact error?

Here is another scan you can try:

Trend Micro HouseCall - Free Online Virus and Spyware Scan - Trend Micro USA