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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: Michael on February 25, 2005, 05:33:54 AM

Title: Scandisk files
Post by: Michael on February 25, 2005, 05:33:54 AM

My computer hang and restart automatically while I was doing my work. After it restart, one of my drive (partition) has became "empty" - it only display the Recycle folder. Suspecting I lost all my files, I notice that the free space are remaining the same as before i.e. 1.78GB out of 12.40Gb, which means my files seems to be still there. I check with Norton's System Information and found out that there are a lot of scandisk files (File0000.chk - File3197.chk) which the total size is the same as my files i.e. 10.62GB. It seems like my files has turned into those scandisk files. What had happened? Any solution to recover my files? Thanks for answering!

Title: Re: Scandisk files
Post by: mektek on February 25, 2005, 05:49:58 AM

It looks like this Hard Drive is corrupted. Back up everything left you can as it is likely to get worse.

Title: Re: Scandisk files
Post by: Michael on February 28, 2005, 10:39:18 AM

Checkdisk files are kept in the root of a drive - where exactly can I excess these files?