hey, thank you for the reply. I resolved to using third
party software like "GetDataBack-fat" to retrieve my
files and it worked better than i thought, but the files
I had open when the system crashed as explained
previously were corrupt. These included exel files from
Office XP mostly, and some Microsoft Works files. The
Microsoft Works files that I'm having problems with get
an error when I open them, saying the file is read only
or already open (weird), which is what was happening
before the crash i was tring to save the file.
Curiously, only recent files, within the past 6 weeks or
so were affected. I will try to research this and
continue to try to help others on this board. It's also
a great way to keep up with current issues that might
help maintain my programs in the future. thnx again
-bert
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello Bert,
>
>Most likely they will be unusable and you can get rid of
them, but take a
>look at them first. Please read the following
explanation.
>
>Lost File Fragments:
>You can use ScanDisk to detect file fragments that are
not in use by
>programs. File fragments are parts of files on your disk
that were lost by
>a program. If you want ScanDisk to remove file fragments
to recover space
>on your disk, click Free. If you want Scandisk to save
file fragments,
>click Convert To Files. When you save file fragments to
your disk, the file
>fragments are converted to file names such as
File0000.chk and are stored
>in the root folder of your disk. You can use any text
editor (such as
>Notepad) to view the saved file. This file may or may
not contain any
>useful information.
>
>Best regards,
>--
>Shain Wray
>Microsoft PSS Security Team
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and
confers no rights.
>Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may
benefit. Thanks!
>--------------------
>>From: "bert" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>Sender: "bert" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>Subject: scandisk saved file fragments but what can i
do with them?
>>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:26:51 -0800
>>
>>My computer got caught in a restart loop after i
>>restarted it due to some problems with applications and
>>was really slow, but after i restarted, i only got as
far
>>as an apology that windows could not start and might be
>>because of a hardware change, which is not true. So
>>someone told me i might have caught a trojan off the
>>internet, and he was an hp reseller that had
experienced
>>this customers and had to reformat and reinstall to
fix.
>>I tried to save my files somewhat so from the start up
>>utilities i used scandisk and even made an undo disk
just
>>in case. well scandisk said it fixed it, but installed
>>xp on another harddrive, made the original one a slave,
>>and accessed the drive and all i see is a bunch of 4kb
>>and 8kb file sized programs or something with all the
>>same file name except a different number, but windows
>>does not know what program created the file and when i
>>open the drive, it does describe that these are
fragments
>>that scandisk saved. theres about 2gb total but how to
i
>>access the files or go ahead to retore them to what
they
>>were, if they are even usable...
>>
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