Alrightie...
Cold boot - completely shut down, restart after a couple of minutes..
Warm Boot - just restart the system...
Shut off your screen saver to run scandisk and defrag) also any anti-virus progs...
New HD?!?! Go buy Norton Systemworks. It has the best defraggers and such in it. MS Defrag was written by Norton and hasn't really been changed all that much since it was first done. Norton not being a MS fan didn't write it to be that great obviously.
But his speed disk smokes the MS version. We can defrag 80 gigs broken into quite a few drives in less time than MS defrag runs a 4 gig disk.
You can also run scandisk from the dos window. C:/>scandisk c: It will pop a windows box with the drives etc for you to choose. (C:/> doesn't have to be what the dos prompt says... currently this terminal would read N:/>Windows in the dos window) I could type the scandisk right there and hit enter, it comes up to run.
That should get you thru the scandisk. If you don't defrag very often, the defrag will take a longer period to run as well. More files are fragmented. So running that daily after dumping the cache and emptying the trash is the best way to insure the system ops at the highest efficiency.