Re: Some of my directories disappeared!

CHKDSK is a utility that finds lost file fragments and saves them for you, correcting errors on the drive (see 'error checking' in
the help)

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Mark L. Ferguson
FAQ for Windows Antispy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"jsbomb" <UseLinkToEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3_1722715_ef79a7b464e9170e937e2363016f3165@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi, I just got a new hard drive, so I installed Windows XP on the new
> drive.
> Originally, I had 2 hard drive, one for windows and the other for
> storing data (music, movies, etc).
>
> I decided to install Windows XP on the new hard drive, so I attached
> the new hard drive and the storage hard drive (200GB).
>
> After installing the XP, I installed SP2 and all the necessary updates
> and the computer was running ok.
>
> However, when I restarted my computer, before the Windows logon
> screen, there were error messages that I couldn't really recall.
> Before the logon screen, It was checking errors on my storage hard
> drive and saved some of the directories into just one file with the
> size 32 kb and no extension.
>
> For example, if the directory name was "blah", and the storage hard
> drive letter was "d:\", instead of d:\blah, now I have a file
> "blah" without any exensions, and with 32 kb in size.
>
> Anyone knows what this is about?
>
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