Bad hard disk?? Help!!!

[Grimace]

I've had some serious problems with opening programs lately. The colored pinwheel starts spinning when I open just one program and sometimes a program bounces in the Dock for 45 seconds before opening - then it's really smooth. Switching between apps has the same effect, or even pressing save in Word. (These problems occur maybe half of the time) I was told to run "fsck -yf" until it no longer "modified my HD". I ran it 15 times, and this was the output every single time:

** /dev/rdiskOs9
** /Root file system
** Checking HFS Plus volume
** Checking Extents Overflow file
** Checking Catalog file
*** overlapped extent allocation (file 248152d)
*** overlapped extent allocation (file 248152d)
*** overlapped extent allocation (file 248152d)
*** overlapped extent allocation (file 248152d)
*** overlapped extent allocation (file 248157d)
*** overlapped extent allocation (file 248158d)
*** overlapped extent allocation (file 248139d)
** Checking multi-linked files.
** Checking Catalog hierarchy
** Checking volume bitmap
** Checking volume information
** Repairing volume
** The volume Macintosh HD was repaired successfully
*****FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED******

What is going on here?????
[system is PB G4 1GHz 512MB RAM]

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[sonofslim]

have you tried repairing permissions? verifying the disk with disk utility?

 

[Grimace]

have you tried repairing permissions? verifying the disk with disk utility?

Yep, I tried all of that too. I just started using Norton Antivirus 9 - I've now heard that it is an evil program and has wreaked havoc on computers.

 

[sonofslim]

use diskwarrior, not norton. (for utilities... don't use norton antivirus for anything but a coaster.)

 

[Grimace]

use diskwarrior, not norton. (for utilities... don't use norton antivirus for anything but a coaster.)

I figured as much. I'm running a full system scan (norton) right now, and there are about 40 files it couldn't scan because it didn't have permission. I repaired permissions three days ago, maybe I have to do it AGAIN!

If I trash Norton now, I still have a screwed up hard drive. Any other ideas on how to fix it??