I was transfering files to my web server and then everything stopped, when i looked at my terminal i got an error in which i cant remember what it said, it said something about an I/O failure, and then when i went into ther services to try and restart my httpd daemon i got an error which said httpd is dead and something about a pid file. so i rebooted the machine and i got an error that said "Your system seemed to have been shutdown unclearly" the it does an integrity check which failed. then it asks me for my root password for maintnance, and then i get a shell and i guess im supposed to be typing something in there, where it says (repair filesystem)1 # problem being i have no idea whats going on or what to do, i tried issuing the command startx but that failed as well, please respond with any help at all. thanks in advanced.

Sounds like filesystem corruption, possibly due to a disk surface defect.

Asuming an ext2 or ex3 file system, I'd boot the web server from a linux boot disk and run the following to non-destructively test the disk surface of your hard drive and repair the file system. Replace X with your drive's designation (eg. hda):
e2fsck -c -c /dev/X