Re: chkdsk/f

Sorry Paul...I misinterpreted your predicament. I keep my original documents and spread*** files on my harddrive and BACKUP on USB drives. Be careful with the USB drives...they are reasonably reliable BUT things can go wrong. Also some utility pgms designed for the hardrive may or may not do what they are supposed to do on removable drives.

On really important stuff it doesn't hurt to have more than one back-up.

I use Karen Kenworthy's "Replicator" for back-ups and it works like a charm...have never had a screw-up yet (fingers crossed), and it is FAST.

Doug W.
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"Paul" <Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1E978F30-7999-4F4A-A1F7-1F3231D87746@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Doug....
I would love to re-nter what I had lost, but I don't know where it is.
Did chkdsk create some sort of new file? I ran a search for the files I lost
using their file extension syntax, but the files did not show up. Fortunately
I have a scan log listing all the files, the list is 40 pages long and lists
files like Word Documents which I now can't find. Re-entering right now
means, re-typing hundreds of documents of which I have hard copies, in order
to create another database. I am sure they are somewhere, but where. Oh, and
they are not back up files, they are original files stored on an external
harddrive. Virus scan does not show up anything and neither does spyware
scan.

Paul
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Thank you, Paul


"Doug" wrote:


"Paul" <Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F0A96975-A12F-4901-AD4A-8118A11D6D95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I store my important data on an external USB Hardrive. When >I
>started the
> drive up, I got an error message which advised me that one > of
> my folders was
> corrupted, not just a file, but the entire folder. The > message
> advised me to
> run chkdsk to recover the files, which I did. Then the > message
> to dismount
> the volume appeared and I answered Y to it. With the volume
> dismounted
> message came the message that all open handles to this > volume
> are now
> invalid. CHKDSK then proceeded to fix the disk, deleting
> corrupted files and
> then recovering orphaned files. At the end of the > run,chkdsk
> reset the
> security id's for some of the files and verified that
> operation. Then it
> inserted data attributes to those files and corrected > errors
> in the master
> file table. In other words chkdsk did a fine job, I even > have
> a print out of
> what it did. After all was said and done and I re-booted my
> computer, the
> previously corrupt folder, which was fixed by chkdsk, was
> gone. The entire
> directory was gone. The only thing that was left was a > ghost
> folder with
> nothing in it. I did a search and nothing came up.
> The big question is, what did chkdsk fix and what did it do
> with an entire
> folder ?
> I am running Win XP Home Edition.
> External drive is a Ximeta, NetDisk NDAS.
>
> Thanks for your feed back,
>
> Paul

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You wanted the corrupt file fixed...that is what it fixed. Carry
on now and re-enter what you lost.
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