oh woe

Something is wrong with my computer. If I could intone those words ominously, I would, but I can only type them pathetically. I've been having really odd random trouble - I'll go to reboot, and windows will take forever to start up at that happy crappy screen with the logo, and then it'll just up and reboot on me in the middle of that. If I turn the damned thing off and back on, it's fine. So, I run chkdsk. It tells me that there are problems with the file system, and I need to run chkdsk /F to fix them. Fine, says me. I do so, and it tells me "yeah, but you've gotta reboot first." Fine, says me. I reboot. It runs chkdsk. And seems to find no problems, fixes nothing. I get into windows, I run it again. "Oh, problems here, miss" it tells me. I'm at a total loss. I hate crap like this. I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall, and I ought to be able to do something more and better, but I have no idea what. To top it off, I can't find my windows XP disc. I don't know that it would help, but it might. Garg.