hi there,
i recently started my computer and the scandisk started automatically, saying that one of my disk drives may have developed bad sectors. the scandisk would not finish running. it stopped, saying:

a logical assertion has failed.
Expression: Get_cStart (&de, dr) ==cSource
Source: line 1732 of scan.c

also, none of my programs work except notepad. this is quite distressing. whenever i try to run a program a message comes up saying
"this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." all this that i've mentioned happened (scandisk error and programs not running)happened at the same time. although i was having some problems before that with my computer. it was very, very slow, wouldn't copy and paste sometimes, etc. i was just about to install adaware when this happened.

i would so greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much!

thanks much,
amy