hello there... am back..well, not really...still here, reading posts.... 

anyway, here's my problem...
yesterday my computer pops up an error when I run opera stating that
C:\documents and settings\my folder\local settings\application data\opera\profile\cache4\opr01BSZ is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the CHKDSK utility.


ok, so I did a chkdsk but it hangs on step 2 at 0%. run that on all nighter but it was still stuck at 0%.
so what I did was (unfortunately) reboot my box and did it again, and again it was stuck at step 2 0%, then again I force reboot it, then cancelled the chkdsk, then run a fix intall on opera to no avail. uninstalled it, then did a fresh install but the error pops up again everytime I run opera...

with all that done, backed up all my data then tried to run chkdsk again but it still was stuck at step 2 0%.  tried googling for that error but can't find any (but a lot of chkdsk hang errors  ). I'm running windows xp home sp 3 with 512 mb ram, 160 gb hd with about half of it free.

thanks  Try deleting the Cache4 folder.ei.... broni just suggested that too...nope, can't be DELETED because of the corrupted data (i'll try that in SAFE mode)...so what i did was uninstall opera, deleted the folder in program files then renamed the opera folder in application data to something other than opera..did a fresh install then voila!..the error pop up no longer shows..

just downloaded seatoolsforwindows as suggesetd by broni...i'll run that tonight...working 


thanks!Yeah, I was going to suggest that next.

Good job. deleted the corrupted data in safe mode then run the sea tools... it's working fine now...thanks  Nice was just wondering....just been lucky here because you guys are there to help and the corrupted data was pinpointed...what if windows didn't pop up a message saying what data was corrupted? chkdsk can't find nor fix this and i'll be running around in circles  ... can you suggest some other utilities in case something LIKE this happens? thanks...Unfortunately, chkdsk, like many other Windows built-in tools is not very reliable.
I case of hard drive problem, TOOL #1 is always hard disk manufacturer test tool.
Stop by any time.     should've figured that out ....thanks broni...be around...