I need some insight on restoring .chk files 2

[fib2358132134]

I had a customer come in with a toshiba lap top and I guess he was running scandisk and it found some errors so he saved all the files. Now he has about 40,000 .chk files that he doesnt know how to open(nor do I) because we dont know what program to associate the files with plus I'm guessing that most of them are parcial or fragments of full files because he didn't have 40,000 files on the computer in the first place. If anyone has any experience with restoring .chk files please let me know.

 

[snootalope]

CHK files are, I belive, parts of files that were found to have errors durning a scandisk.. IMHO, if they were found to have errors, why restore? Anyway.. I found this link that has an app that can restore them..

http://www.ericphelps.com/uncheck/

Good Luck! Please let me know what this does for you.. Works, doesn't work, even if it kills everything, I'd like to know what the system does with them.. "tis better to be thought of as a fool then open your mouth and remove all doubt" Mark Twain

"I should of been a doctor.." Me

 

[gargouille]

You didn't tell him how senseless the action is?

Can you imagine how many successful edits may have happened to say, Word files, since the crash that wrote the file and what they'll look like when you restore the lost bits?

Then what will you tell him: that he was the one who wanted to do it?

gimmeabreak!

The hard answer to give a customer may NOT make you popular with him...but at least he'll know he can count on a straight answer...or leave it.

(Just my 2 cents worth of rave)

 

[wolluf]

gargouille,

Think you're being a bit hard there - the link he gave is to 2 apps that will either rename .chk file with new extension (that the app works out) or copy .chk file first and then do same. Its not going to affect any 'real' (ie, files not found to be broken by scandisk) files on the system , and it will give user chance to at least try to open files with correct app & see what's in them.

 

[gargouille]

My apologies, not making a judgment, just saying what I'd do in the same situation...

 

[edfair]

With 40,000 it is hopeless anyhow.

Better he backup his good stuff and chunk the trash.
He can always type the file name and get enough out to figure where it came from. Ed Fair
unixstuff@juno.com
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[fib2358132134]

I agree with Gargouille 100%. I have never wasted my time trying to recover .chk files thats why I had to ask for assistance on the matter. I told the guy straight out he lost his data and that maybe now he would start backing up his data and that I would be happy to sell him a zip drive. There are four phases of the customer who just lost his data...Denial, panic, anger, and then finally exceptance....my man is in the panic stage now. thanks for all your help

 

[Awesomenessman]

I have an ancient 486DX with Win 95 I'm playing with.
Seems like every time I run scandisk it converts important system files into CHK files. I believe this is the reason my IE 5.5 no longer works. Have no start-up disk or I would uninst/reinst Win 95. As is only about 50 files or so affected. No longer run scandisk as I'm trying to preserve what's left of this dino. Help ?

 

[wolluf]

Does no start up disk mean no windows 95 install CD? (and there's not a copy of install files on hard drive?). If so, may be difficult to do much.

But, if only problem is IE 5.5 - have you tried repairing it (from add/remove programs)? Or removing and reinstalling it?

If by start up disk you mean boot floppy, you can download one (with CD support) from

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm.

PS. Has scandisk been running at startup? If so, have you tried running it from within windows (that version has long filename support). If its constantly wanting to be run, and keeps tunring up .chk files, its normally an indication that you have a problem. This may be that the hard drive is failing or it could be another hardware problem (like bad memory, overheating cpu etc).