[jane]

i checked the event viewer and nothing came up. i did a scan disk check and this is what was found

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 24 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 24 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 24 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

17944573 KB total disk space.
5992636 KB in 52504 files.
40100 KB in 2179 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
238909 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
11672928 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
4486143 total allocation units on disk.
2918232 allocation units available on disk.

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.