three new folders appeared on C drive

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I discover that three new folders have appeared on my C drive. I think they
appeared after the power went out here. They are:
Found.000
Found.001
Found.002

There are a number of FILE....CHK files in them. I assume they're do to the
pc recovery check after the power went out. Do I need to keep these
folders/files?

Jack
 
Jack said:
I discover that three new folders have appeared on my C drive. I
think they appeared after the power went out here. They are:
Found.000
Found.001
Found.002

There are a number of FILE....CHK files in them. I assume they're do
to the pc recovery check after the power went out. Do I need to keep
these folders/files?
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Not if you don't want the data contained in them. They are reconstructions
of damaged files gathered during a checkdisk operation where the complete
file could not be reconstructed.
 
These folders are created automatically when we run the chkdsk scan or
possibly another disk checking utility. When errors are found such as lost
clusters on your drive, Windows will fix the errors but depending on whether
or not you have chosen to convert lost clusters or chains to file, windows
will create these folders sequentially starting with .000. So you may have
several of them.

The folders contain files with names File0000.chk, File 0001.chk and so on.
These file are created to save any lost data during the chkdsk fix.

But usually these files are of no use and you can delete them at your will.

:I discover that three new folders have appeared on my C drive. I think
they
: appeared after the power went out here. They are:
: Found.000
: Found.001
: Found.002
:
: There are a number of FILE....CHK files in them. I assume they're do to
the
: pc recovery check after the power went out. Do I need to keep these
: folders/files?
:
: Jack
:
:
 
I discover that three new folders have appeared on my C drive. I
think they appeared after the power went out here. They are:
Found.000
Found.001
Found.002

There are a number of FILE....CHK files in them. I assume they're
do to the pc recovery check after the power went out. Do I need
to keep these folders/files?
Click to expand...

You computer must have crashed while in the middle of writing files to
the disk. Windows sensed that the process had not completed
successfully and ran the disk check utility CHKDSK at the next bootup,
and it found possibly corrupt files.

The CHK files are files or file fragments that were not properly
cataloged in the file system. There is no way to easily tell if they
are necessary or not except to examine them with a binary file viewer.
You might find that they are some of your data files, and if you rename
them with the correct extension, they will be usable again. The files
are sometimes corrupt and mashed-up with other unrelated files, and
therefore are not usable.

Usually, the fragments aren't needed. You might consider keeping them
for a while until you are sure the system is running properly and all
your data files are present and accounted for. Then you can delete the
Found folders and their contents.
 
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