Recently my Acer ES512 laptop with Windows 10 decided not to boot. Trying to refresh it, I was informed my drive was "locked". While I was rooting around on the Internet I found someone who suggested running chkdsk. But when I did, it took ALL of the files from \Windows as well as ALL of my files from my personal |User area and deleted my username. But it created a hidden file called found.000. In it, I can see some files are for Windows and some of them are for me in directories named dir####.chk and dir_#####.chk. But there are more than 7000 of these and another 4000 or more hidden. There are also ~27,000 files named file####.chk. I tried copying them to a USB but it ran out of room for the filenames after a quarter of my 16 GB USB drive had been written to. I have no Windows, but using the Recovery USB I have access to a limp form of DOS. I ran diskpart and it recognizes all my paritions and tells me they are healthy. The dirty bit has not been set either. I found unchk.exe and filechk.exe which are supposed to restore the files, but they only work in Windows, not DOS. Does anyone know a DOS program that will restore those files???
