I don't think running checkdisk was a mistake - it was the normal way to
troubleshoot your problem. I think from the beginning of the thread it
was pretty likely that your hard drive had become defective. The first
time you ran checkdisk you mentioned that it had found problems and
fixed them. The way checkdisk "fixes" defective sectors is that it
simply makes them invisible to Windows so that Windows won't try to use
them anymore. It then tries to recover any data it can from those bad
sectors, and puts what it finds into files called .chk. Lots of times
these files are useless - like bits of text from a Word document, or
bits of data from an image file. But sometimes you can recover a
complete file from these. You can try the methods of recovery that were
already mentioned - here's another site with some suggestions:
http://www.ericphelps.com/uncheck/ .
Anyway, Checkdisk didn't erase or change any of the data that was on the
bad sectors it found. It's all still there, but I would imagine it was,
and still is, unreadable. You can still try a data-recovery program to
get it back. Here's a list of some free ones (I've never tried any of
them), or maybe someone else will suggest a good one. Just because you
saw the file names scroll by as the anti-virus scanner ran doesn't mean
the complete file is still there -but maybe it is.
Sorry if you've lost any data. This same thing happened to me maybe 3
times before a finally forced myself into a regular backup routine.
Good luck,
Donk
pekoe4849 wrote:
> Jim,
>
> They are 'sort of' there. Obviously running CHKDSK was a mistake. It
> converted all the files to .chk files, so most are probably
> unreadable--even if I can find them. I downloaded the UnCheck program
> and ran it, but it said it couldn't find any; yet I saw the file names
> scroll by as the virus/trojan scanner was scanning. I hate losing the
> data I had on that drive, but I'm sick about losing the pictures that
> can't be replaced.
>
> Diane
>
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