Problem in Windows XP

[Lynda]

I'm having a freeze up problem. When I reboot and start
scan disk, I receive this information....I.E.
Desktop.htt, first allocation not valid, truncated,

Today's (6-20) I had AOL first allocation (cache) 120.txt
and Paperquote (a screen saver program) cache with
120.jpg also invalid and truncated.

The scan disk reads 15520 mb damaged sectors, but they
have supposedly been closed off and won't be a problem to
my hard drive.

I go to open say...AOL, and within seconds I simply
freeze up, nothing is working (this includes the Mem
Turbo) so I then have to reboot and go through scan disk.

Then I might want to go into my PSP 8.01 program (got the
patch for it) and when it starts to read a large file of
thumbnails (mostly jpegs.) it freezes up, and I have to
start over again.

I've crashed and rebuilt this computer twice now, and I'm
burned out. I am saving everything over to disk so I
don't lose anything ever again, such as my portfolio,
which I cannot afford to lose.

I've already dealt with compatibility issues, with my
Wacom Drawing Tablet, it doesn't seem to be a problem
anymore.

I just want to know, what can I do to stop this freezing
up. Today, I wasn't on the system more than 5 minutes,
and it froze. On another day, I froze up 3 times before
I could simply stay on for awhile. This is getting old.
Anyone know what I can do, please...write me!!!!

Thanks,
Lynda

[Rich Barry]

How old is your Hard Drive? Sounds like alot of damaged sectors. When
you rebuilt your system did you add new memory? Both can cause corrupt
files.
"Lynda" > wrote in message
...
> I'm having a freeze up problem. When I reboot and start
> scan disk, I receive this information....I.E.
> Desktop.htt, first allocation not valid, truncated,
>
> Today's (6-20) I had AOL first allocation (cache) 120.txt
> and Paperquote (a screen saver program) cache with
> 120.jpg also invalid and truncated.
>
> The scan disk reads 15520 mb damaged sectors, but they
> have supposedly been closed off and won't be a problem to
> my hard drive.
>
> I go to open say...AOL, and within seconds I simply
> freeze up, nothing is working (this includes the Mem
> Turbo) so I then have to reboot and go through scan disk.
>
> Then I might want to go into my PSP 8.01 program (got the
> patch for it) and when it starts to read a large file of
> thumbnails (mostly jpegs.) it freezes up, and I have to
> start over again.
>
> I've crashed and rebuilt this computer twice now, and I'm
> burned out. I am saving everything over to disk so I
> don't lose anything ever again, such as my portfolio,
> which I cannot afford to lose.
>
> I've already dealt with compatibility issues, with my
> Wacom Drawing Tablet, it doesn't seem to be a problem
> anymore.
>
> I just want to know, what can I do to stop this freezing
> up. Today, I wasn't on the system more than 5 minutes,
> and it froze. On another day, I froze up 3 times before
> I could simply stay on for awhile. This is getting old.
> Anyone know what I can do, please...write me!!!!
>
> Thanks,
> Lynda