FOUND.0000/DIR00*.CHK hidden folder

[KellyK]

Greetings all. I had a slight hdd crash last month and everytime I do a
v-scan, it takes forever to scan through these "recovered" fragments located
in D:\FOUND.0000/DIR00*.CHK folder but I cannot find them. Of course I first
set file properties to view hidden files, but they're still not there! I
had a good backup of my lost files and of course the .chk files contain no
recoverable data anyway (they were chunks of FrontPage webs I had good dupes
of). And my system is running fine. I've scrubbed all the groups, MS and
some faq's and nobody can supply an answer. Lots of links to bogus
newsgroups all containing the exact same threads that never get answered.
Anybody know of a way to get rid of them? I'm a neat freak and they're just
taking up space.
TIA - Kel

XP-Pro SP2
Centrino 2.0 GHz
1.00 GB RAM
Inspiron 9200

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

Delete them..

 

[KellyK]

They're invisible. I do a search of drive D: (including sys & hidden files)
for them and they don't appear. As I said in my post I set the system to
show all files. The only place you can actually see them is during a NAV
scan. If I could see them in Explorer I would delete them. Thanks anyway.
Anyone else have any ideas - I'd sure love to hear them.
Ta - Kel

 

[Joe Wright]

They're invisible. I do a search of drive D: (including sys & hidden files)
for them and they don't appear. As I said in my post I set the system to
show all files. The only place you can actually see them is during a NAV
scan. If I could see them in Explorer I would delete them. Thanks anyway.
Anyone else have any ideas - I'd sure love to hear them.
Ta - Kel

Try to delete them anyway:

Click Start, Run, type CMD, click OK. Type:

RMDIR /?

Required parameters and other help will be shown.

 

[KellyK]

Try to delete them anyway:

Click Start, Run, type CMD, click OK. Type:

RMDIR /?

Required parameters and other help will be shown.

--
Joe =o)

Add clvck to the subject line and correct my address from "invalid" to
"com" if you want to email me. "Joe Wright"

Thanks Joe but DOS didn't work. Nice try though. It returns confusing error
messages; first that "the directory is not empty", and then "directory
doesn't exist". Very strange because I excitedly thought it would work at
first when I read your reply. I must add that I haven't used DOS much in
recent years so it was fun trying it out anyway.

I did resolve the issue however. Since the hidden/un-viewable/un-removable
..chk files were on a secondary partition ("D"). I just copied all the files
I wanted to save to an external USB drive then re-booted in safe mode and
simply formatted the partition. Not sure why I didn't think of it earlier.
It freed up 16GB of space! I couldn't believe how much space they did
occupy. No wonder NAV took so long scanning them all. I thought that they
might be a gig or two, but sixteen gigs seems like a lot for just .chk
files! Just glad they weren't on drive "C"!

Thanks again to all for your ideas.

Kel :0