aunty bob said:

> I need something where I can choose the app, extension, or whatever the
> hell the problem is, and then it will seek these problematic 
> opcodes/hex$
> or whatever


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pythia jonathan wrote:

lars has written a tool like this -- see the shareware
section of staz's site.

from the results that you obtained with norton, it looks like
you have a corrupt block on your hard drive, and an error in
the FAT.

ideally you should do a lowlevel reformat of your drive so that
this block is marked as 'off limits' and then reinstall.


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paranoid herbie adds:

If Jonathan's conjecture turns out to be true, then --
believe me -- don't bother with reformatting. As soon as
possible save all valuables on this HD and go buy a new one.
If you don't do this, you shall observe a steady increase in
bad blocks that eats your data, at least on one of the
platters. Consequently, you will be busy hunting bad blocks
either till you get mad or even worse is happening to your
HD, e.g. bad blocks in the directory, or a head crash. 

Good luck!

Best,

Herbie