scan disk problem

[Guest]

I have a very weird problem. When I started up my comp a couple days ago,
scandisk started scanning my slave drive for some reason?. I had some really
important info on that drive and when I tried to open up that drive it is all
wiped out?? all 11 gigs of it, but when I check the properties of the drive
it still says that there is 11 gigs of space used up and all I can see for a
file is the recycle bin? I opened up the recycle bin and it is empty? I
performed a disk cleanup and it sais there is 11 gigs of scandisk files in
the root folder?? I'm not sure what the root folder is and how do I get into
the root folder to recover all my stuff? I have never had this happen before
in the 15+ years experience I have with computers!! I have ran a virus check
and nothing?? Does anyone have any suggestions?? I certainly hope so. Thanx

 

[Guest]

Windows XP uses the chkdsk.exe utility not ScanDisk.

So try opening the command prompt from the master drive and run chkdsk on
the slave drive by entering chkdsk [X:] at the command prompt.

To find out what the switches are for chkdsk, enter chkdsk /?

Otherwise, download and use the diagnostic utility provided by the drive's
manufacturer

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

 

[Steve N.]

I have a very weird problem. When I started up my comp a couple days ago,
scandisk started scanning my slave drive for some reason?. I had some really
important info on that drive and when I tried to open up that drive it is all
wiped out?? all 11 gigs of it, but when I check the properties of the drive
it still says that there is 11 gigs of space used up and all I can see for a
file is the recycle bin? I opened up the recycle bin and it is empty? I
performed a disk cleanup and it sais there is 11 gigs of scandisk files in
the root folder?? I'm not sure what the root folder is and how do I get into
the root folder to recover all my stuff? I have never had this happen before
in the 15+ years experience I have with computers!! I have ran a virus check
and nothing?? Does anyone have any suggestions?? I certainly hope so. Thanx

In XP it is chkdsk, not scandisk. Regardless, apparently the file system
on that drive suffered such corruption that chkdsk could not determine
what files/folders the data on the drive belonged to and saved the
"lost" data as *.chk files. These may be hidden files so to see them you
will need set folder options to show hidden files. There's probably not
much you can do with the .chk files, though.

Steve

 

[Steve N.]

Windows XP uses the chkdsk.exe utility not ScanDisk.

So try opening the command prompt from the master drive and run chkdsk on
the slave drive by entering chkdsk [X:] at the command prompt.

To find out what the switches are for chkdsk, enter chkdsk /?

Otherwise, download and use the diagnostic utility provided by the drive's
manufacturer

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

Doesn't matter, chkdsk already did it's dirtywork, the 11GB is probably
..chk files and are probably hidden.

Steve

 

[Guest]

Thanx for the help. unfoortunately I have enabled "hidden files" and
nothing... The files are .chk so I am going to try the recovery cammand
through chkdsk wich has almost finished. That really sucks if I lost
everything and I sure the hell would like to know why the disk has basically
formatted itself ?! The Maxtor 20gig is only about 12 months old..

 

[Steve N.]

Thanx for the help. unfoortunately I have enabled "hidden files" and
nothing... The files are .chk so I am going to try the recovery cammand
through chkdsk wich has almost finished.

If you mean CHKDSK /R that does not recover data from .chk files, that
attempts recover data from bad sectors. Not the same thing.

This might be helpful though:

http://www.ericphelps.com/uncheck/

That really sucks if I lost
everything and I sure the hell would like to know why the disk has basically
formatted itself ?! The Maxtor 20gig is only about 12 months old..

It didn't format, if it had formatted then you'd see no files at all.

Steve

 

[Guest]

Thanx alot for the help guys!! Most of the filoes were recoveres, all the
important ones anyways. Thanx again

 

[Steve N.]

Thanx alot for the help guys!! Most of the filoes were recoveres, all the
important ones anyways. Thanx again

Excellent! So glad it worked out for you. Thanks for the report back.

Steve