Help! Many folder are converted to files!

[Will Denny]

Hi

Are these folders named Found.001, Found.002 etc.?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

What happens when you double click on the folders/files or right click then
Open?

Have you tried a System Restore back to a point before the problem started.

 

[Mike Hall]

Those are files that are created when Windows crashes out.. put them in
recycle bin..

 

[D.Currie]

Those are corrupted or leftover bits and pieces that Windows converts to
files so you can delete them. Most of the time they are just damaged bits of
program files or partial files that are useless, but sometimes you can
recover them, if you know what you're looking for.

For example, if you're looking for photo files and document files, and you
know they were all .jpg and .doc files, you can open the files in Notepad
and see if there's any indication what they are. Doc file will be readable,
but with all the coding visible. You can just rename them with the doc
extension and they might be fine.

jpg files won't be readable, but you might find indications that they are
jpgs. Or you could rename them with the jpg extension, then see if they open
as photos.

Considering that you have about ten thousand files, opening them one at a
time is going to take a lot of time.

BTW, system restore won't do anything for you.

 

[Robert Moir]

Those are files that are created when Windows crashes out.. put them
in recycle bin..

Actually they are created when chkdsk finds problems in a filesystem and
attempts to recover what file fragments it can.

 

[Mike Hall]

... and chkdsk runs after Windows crashes out..

Actually they are created when chkdsk finds problems in a filesystem and
attempts to recover what file fragments it can.

 

[Andy Chen]

Just as what said! System restore did nothing for me.
I can recover by rename them with the correct extension but it is a
imporssible mission for 10000 files. I decided to recover a few most
important files which are very large and I can find them easily.
I'm so confused that I'm very sure these files are not corrupted at all,
just because the folder name is not much readable and Chkdsk convert my
it to a file and put my files to Found.000? Is there a known virus which
can do this job? How could this happan?!

 

[Andy]

Most of these folders' name have a dot ".", the diskcheck did this! There
are many important data in these files! Is there a way to convert them back?
I didn't make any change on this disk driver!

Thanks so much!

 

[Andy]

No, I mean my normal and useful folders are converted to files, the names
were not changed. It does hava a FOUND.000 folder but I think it has no
problem.

 

[Andy]

Thanks for your reply! Maybe I can try the system restore but I'm so afraid
maybe it will get worse.
It's really a big trouble! I got some imformation from microsoft web site.
It's all about Chkdsk!
I find a folder named found.000 on the partition which has the problem, and
10000 files named from FILE0000.CHK to FILE9999.CHK are included. The total
size is 8.85GB. I think these files are just what I've lost! I'm still
thinking about getting them back, at least a part of them.