Thank you for your advice
i do have windows XP
yeah, i thought about rebooting a lot of times
the thing that kept me from doing that was all the anime i have, lol
i already have about 100 gigs on my comp of stuff i want to keep, plus about 70 out of 80 gigs on an external hardrive
but just today i checked the help section in my comp and tried the restore point (bc i deleted bittorrent and tried to update with the new one but couldnt install it), and guess what, the freakin error popped up - so that decision was screwed
its been happening for a while, like maybe sometime in the beginning of this year

anyways your other suggestion about reboot/reformat is probably the way im gonna go
my brothers friend came over with a 160gig external hd today so ill probably use his, and also my other friend has reformated his comp before so hell help me with that

ARIGATO GOZAIMASU