of course...depending on how bad the file system is damaged...
the data could be left in hundreds or thousands of .chk file fragments.
does that mean that i could do a quick eyeballing of the files in the
windows folder and the program files folder to see if there are any
files with the .chk attachment? this is all hypothetical at this
point. i tried to open a file in my itunes folder which was,
apparently, an xml document...at least, that's what explorer called
it...and it brought my comp to a standstill. it was the "itunes music
library" that looks like a page with an earth surrounded by < > with
three lines under it.
i couldn't figure out what the hell was going on. i tried to end task.
all of a sudden, things weren't responding and it took forever for
task manager to open. tried to end task on the window and it just hung
and hung and hung. thought something may have been damaged, so i ran a
chkdsk /p and it said that one or more sectors were damaged (or,
whatever the exact terms were). so, i ran a chkdsk /r.
everything seems to be running just fine. i like to think that i know
what i'm doing with my xp machine, but it's probably impossible to
understand all the nuances of xp unless you run into them yourself.
i've never even had xp crash on me in the year i've had this machine,
and i like to think that it's because i know what i'm doing. but, you
could probably just about shoehorn everything i don't know about
windows into the grand canyon.
thx
