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Re: Stinger just stops running - why?

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From: not.my
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:46

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On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 23:45:33 -0500, "Russg"
<russgilb@MUNGEsbcglobal.net> wrote:

>snip problem file in XP.
>> So what do I do now?  Does XP have some way of detecting the corrupted
>> file sector links you mention?  Is this a media error or an error in
>> the file/folder structure of my computer?
>I suspect it is a bad sector on your hard drive.
>A 'thourough' scandisk can take hours, but would
>spot and exclude the bad sector out.
>It may be a corrupted FAT, or whatever XP uses
>to map sectors for files.
>The solution is to try to delete the file, which may
>be robust enough to overcome the corruption.
>If you get a lot of bad sectors, then your hard drive
>is about to go.  Some bad sectors are acceptable,
>just let scandisk map them out of use.
>I think.
>

You nailed it.  I had XP run chkdsk on starting the computer.  It
found exactly one bad cluster, and that was where the problematic file
was located.  It reported that it moved the file successfully and
repaired the sector.  I then ran stinger and it flew through
everything with no problems.

Thanks.

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