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FOUND.000 folders
Name: Learner Date: February 18, 2003 at 00:30:56 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: 1.2 GHz/256MB
Comment:
Dear All
I have got windows 2000 prof. After every few days i see some automatically created folders with the name of FOUND.000 ..etc in my C drive. Does anybody know the reason why they are created ? What is their use ? Does it indicate any data corruption or hard disk bad sectors ?
Name: Glen Date: February 18, 2003 at 05:31:47 Pacific
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These folders are created when you run chkdsk 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 chose to convert lost clusters or chains to file, windows will create these folders sequentially starting with .000. So you may have several of them.
Inside of those folders you may find files named File0000.chk, File 0001.chk etc. Thes file are creatd to save any lost data during the chkdsk fix. You can examine those files with a text editor to see if they contain any data that is important. If not, you can delete them.
Good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: Rick Date: February 18, 2003 at 08:08:21 Pacific
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Unless the chk files contain text from documents or such, they are almost immpossible to recover. I have stopped trying and just delete them.
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