My computer won't make up its mind...help!

[johnjohn320]

OK, so a few days ago I notice I have a little over a gig left on my hard drive, and all was well. Today, I was just surfin the web, and a the disk cleanup thing pops up and tells me that I only have 128 MB left. I was like, "WHAT!?!?!" So just as I'm about to do something about it, my computer locks up, and I have to turn it off and then on again. This time, I check my drive and it now says I have over a gig left. Now I'm confused. Then, as I log onto the internet, I check again and it has gone down to about 800 MB. I come here to post about it, in the middle of my typing my comp locks up again, and I have to restart once more. It comes back on and tells me that I have 128 MB again. I uninstall a bunch of crap, bring it up to about a gig and half, then come here once more to try and post. My comp AGAIN locks up, I turn it off and on again, and it still says about a gig and a half.

Help!!!!

 

[johnjohn320]

OK, I think see a correlation between the lock-ups and ReGet, the download manager I use. If I start up ReGet, ReGet will freeze, and soon after ctr+alt+del to close that, my whole computer locks up. Any suggestions? Do I have to uninstall ReGet, if so, will this dump my partially downloaded file (please say no)?

 

[lillazy23]

how big is your hard drive?

 

[johnjohn320]

Small, like 9 Gigs.

 

[frover2000]

run scandisk, chances are it's just misreporting the freespace, scandisk will take care of that

 

[johnjohn320]

Way ahead of you, frover, I ran it and it returned no errors. Should I run the thorough scan that takes several hours? I only ran it to check files and folders. Thanks for the suggestions guys and keep 'em coming, now it says I have over 2.5 gigs.

 

[medic]

Run the full scan for surface errors.

 

[johnjohn320]

K, I did that and it returned no errors.