FOUND Recovered File Fragments after power interuption

[Retired Navy]

Dear Sirs,

Yesterday, some thunderboomers and heavy duty lightning came thru early evening, and the juice kicked off and back on before I could get this rig shutdown, and it restarted her improperly, and the auto Chkdsk ran, but I didn't get to read what it offered me to do when it found errors, which it did, I got sidetracked with the aerial bombardment.

On the root of my hard drive containing Windows XP, there is now a
File Folder, named FOUND.000
It's 4.03 MB and holds 123 files, of Recovered File Fragments, named
(FILE0000.CHK
24.0 KB, Yesterday, July 20, 2008, 8:41:18 PM
to
FILE0122.CHK
156 KB, Yesterday, July 20, 2008, 8:41:18 PM).

At the time of power interuption, all I was using was Firefox, and I think I also had OE open, nothing appears missing in my OE folders, and I opened a few of the .CHK files with Firefox and they indeed are peices of web pages, icons, pics, ect...

So I guess I can just delete the whole FOUND.000 folder, correct ?

This happened once before ages ago, I forgot what I did, just curious, and mainly my reason for posting, to know,
what were my options after the scan,
to either delete right then, or,
save to files which I guess is the default when you don't chose ?

Thanks,
An OldBosn in The Boondocks

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[R. McCarty]

Yes, delete the Found.000 folder. Abrupt loss of power prevents the PC
from committing data changes to the drive. NTFS format is a transactional
drive format and is somewhat resilient to data corruption. However, these
days I would recommend that everyone use a UPS. You can get a unit that
provides 6-10 Minutes of backup for less than ~$35. Connect the PC and
any Broadband connectivity equipment to the UPS.


Dear Sirs,

Yesterday, some thunderboomers and heavy duty lightning came thru early
evening, and the juice kicked off and back on before I could get this rig
shutdown, and it restarted her improperly, and the auto Chkdsk ran, but I
didn't get to read what it offered me to do when it found errors, which it
did, I got sidetracked with the aerial bombardment.

On the root of my hard drive containing Windows XP, there is now a
File Folder, named FOUND.000
It's 4.03 MB and holds 123 files, of Recovered File Fragments, named
(FILE0000.CHK
24.0 KB, Yesterday, July 20, 2008, 8:41:18 PM
to
FILE0122.CHK
156 KB, Yesterday, July 20, 2008, 8:41:18 PM).

At the time of power interuption, all I was using was Firefox, and I think I
also had OE open, nothing appears missing in my OE folders, and I opened a
few of the .CHK files with Firefox and they indeed are peices of web pages,
icons, pics, ect...

So I guess I can just delete the whole FOUND.000 folder, correct ?

This happened once before ages ago, I forgot what I did, just curious, and
mainly my reason for posting, to know,
what were my options after the scan,
to either delete right then, or,
save to files which I guess is the default when you don't chose ?

Thanks,
An OldBosn in The Boondocks

S U P P O R T O U R T R O O P S

U. S. N A V Y