I ran the windows 2000 defragmenter and it said the drives don't need to be defragmented. Most of the files were in the same vacinity, more or less.

I also tried running knoppix and knoppix for kids, this time with the cheats. One important thing I noticed was that it when I was shutting down the computer:

umount /ramdisk
could not umount /KNOPPIX - trying /dev/cloop
umount /dev/root

It was something similar. Any insight?