Disk Scan

[BiGdoGg]

For some reason my original post never showed up? Here goes again..

My Dell D-600 laptop has blue screened a few times and I think it was
related to a driver issue. It's been running fine now for a 6 months but I
was searching my hard drive for large files and I found one the was 1.5 Gig
it was in a folder names FOUND.000 and I had two more called FOUND.001 &
FOUND.002? Are these folders that backed up corrupted files from scan disk?
I'm not sure what they are. Are they OK to delete? 1.5 Gig to me is alot
of hard drive space that I need. I figured it was something that scan disk
created while scanning my laptop for problems with the hard drive.

Thanks in Advanced,

BiG

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Those folders are created by 'Check Disk' - the files will have a .CHK
extension in those folders - and yes, they can be deleted. It's very
doubtful that much of any useful data can be retrieved from them.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| For some reason my original post never showed up? Here goes again..
|
| My Dell D-600 laptop has blue screened a few times and I think it was
| related to a driver issue. It's been running fine now for a 6 months but
I
| was searching my hard drive for large files and I found one the was 1.5
Gig
| it was in a folder names FOUND.000 and I had two more called FOUND.001 &
| FOUND.002? Are these folders that backed up corrupted files from scan
disk?
| I'm not sure what they are. Are they OK to delete? 1.5 Gig to me is alot
| of hard drive space that I need. I figured it was something that scan
disk
| created while scanning my laptop for problems with the hard drive.
|
| Thanks in Advanced,
|
| BiG
|
|
|

 

[Philippe L. Balmanno]

Go ahead and delete them. I have never found any use in trying to recover
these files ever since W95 through to XP. You would need to know the
original file name to restore them and that's not easy. If something
doesn't work just reinstall it. They are not much use. You could possibly
scan the file and try to determine which programs had the problem. But then
the problem could have been caused by an issue other than the program
itself.