What is "chkdsk /f." this msg appears when I try to defrag disk

I can't do a disk defrag and do not know how to do this.   I tried from the "cmd" prompt, but it does not work.  Help!

This means that Windows has detected that there are errors on your drive and will not Disk Defragmenter run until errors are fixed.

Click Start > run then type chkdsk /f in the box, click OK

A black command prompt window opens with the following message:

The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock the current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process.  You want to schedule this volume to be
check the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

Type Y, and then restart the computer.

CHKDSK runs and try to correct any errors, which he founded.  If everything works correctly, you will be able to run Disk Defragmenter.  Depending on the size of your disk and the number of files, chkdsk may take a long time.  Let it run until the end.

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