Hi Matthew,
Chkdsk scans and repairs volumes on the hard disk for physical problems,
such as bad blocks, and logical structure errors, such as lost clusters,
cross-linked files, or directory errors.
In addition to try the tool as Byte has suggested (I have taken a look at
the tool, seems good), you can examine the contents of these files
(found.000) with a text editor to see whether they contain any needed data
(if the converted chains came from corrupted binary files, they are of no
value). You can delete the CHK files after you have saved any useful data.
IMPORTANT: Please do not run defragmenter since defragmenter will decrease
the opportunity to recovery the data.
In addition, please know Microsoft does not provided data recovery service
and cannot guarantee the lost data will be retrieved.
Some repairs, such as correcting lost clusters (also knows as allocation
units) or cross-linked files, change a volume's file allocation table and
can cause data loss, Chkdsk first prompts you with a confirmation message
similar to the following:
10 lost allocation units found in 3 chains.
Convert lost chains to files?
If you press N, Windows 2000 fixes the errors on the volume but does not
save the contents of the lost clusters.
This is addressed in the following link with the snippet "Correcting
Problems by Using Chkdsk"
Troubleshooting Tools and Strategies
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/
en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/reskit/en
-us/prork/pref_tts_ffgh.asp
Recovering Lost Clusters on FAT Volumes
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us
/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_t
ro_kbnn.asp
Please use a Hex edit tool to open these CHK files to find something useful
and post back if you have any update.
Good luck!
Best regards,
Rebecca Chen
MCSE2000 MCDBA CCNA
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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