K8N SLI Platinum nf4 HD problems

Hi all,
Today I wanted to run a defrag on my HD before making a backup, my system froze in between and I had to reset it.
After this, the boot was taking forever and the defrag program was very slow, freezing in every step:
1- Calling it.
2 - Pressing Analyse
3 - and so on.
So I never got to ran the defrag again.
I decided to restore an image from 3 days ago.
Restored, the slow boot and the defrag were still there.
Puzzled, I decided to delete the page file and create a new one since it's in a second drive.
Anyway, still slow boot and the defrag problem.
Does anybody knows what may be wrong here ?
Thanks

A cold boot solved it. 

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