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From: ilona (ilona_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:19:05 -0800

I tried to burn a DVD with Studio 9 (program to create DVD's from avi's).
Unfortunatly I got a blue screen with the message
Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_or_egual.

After rebooting my computer it told me to run a check disk on my second
drive (Maxtor). So I did. Now I can't see the *.avi files (50GB) on this
drive with the windows explorer anymore (even though I can see all other
hidden files). So I checked with the command prompt to see if files are
there. And yes there they were.

Now they are hidden files in a hidden system folder the
found.000\dir0004.chk directory. Used dir /a to see. I tried to recover the
files with recover function from DOS but now the computer is telling me 'File
not found'. But it's there I can see it. Is there a windows/dos command to
get my files back? I don't use my maxtor drive now just to hold everything as
it is but I would like to have my files back.

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