disk check found.000

[Calvin]

When i rebooted my PC Windows performed a CHDISK.
During this scanning, it moved/erased a number of files,
for what purpose i do not know.

When i logged into Windows most of my files (60gig of them!
) were moved to found.000 and found.001 which contained
dir0000.chk and dir0001.chk etc, which contained a lot of
my files, mixed about.

This was my E:\ drive. Not the drive Windows is installed on.

What process can i take to restore these files to their
rightful places?

Please e-mail me (e-mail address removed)

 

[Jerry]

Questions asked in newsgroups get answered in newsgroups.

You open each file in Notepad, determine what it is and where it cam from,
rename it to whatever you determined it should be, return it to wherever you
figured out it should go. Plan on spending many hours trying to determine
everthing.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

You may also need to try extracting files from them as some of them may
be compressed as well. It actually sounds like something is wrong with
the way Windows is reporting information from the drive. I doubt,
though it is possible, that Windows relabeled all those files.

 

[Len]

Yep, windows relabeled them - in other systems it used to use the extension
"chk". This is the result of finding files/fragments during chkdsk that are
truly fragmented or not properly listed in the NTFS tables or FAT32 file
allocation table.

FWIW,
Len