NTLDR was Missing, now the whole drive is .chk files! 1

[NooBChicken]

I don't know the history of this HD or what the user has been doing. The original complaint was that the PC would not boot and when I tried to boot the machine, it returned "NTLDR not found"

I proceeded to take out this Hard drive and set it as a slave and plugged it into another NT machine. On boot-up scan disk ran and now the only files I have left on the drive is:
a folder "Found.000" - with 1000 .chk files in it.
and on the root of the drive there are 33 files with no extensions, each named with a single letter or symbol (ie. "4" or "T&quot

The total used space of the HD has not changed just that all the files are fragmented and not useable.

Can anyone tell me if its possible to recover this data?

Thank you.
Noob Chicken

 

[wolluf]

Scandisk on NT? Is the filestore Fat or Ntfs (I've never seen anything like that on ntfs - but several times on fat32). I don't know what a data recovery app would make of the drive (probably worth trying) - otherwise looks like inspecting individual .chk files etc.

 

[Claudek]

Have had a similar thing happen to a client's machine. Please have a look at

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

There are 2 utilities which can go through your chk files and rename them to what they should/used to be. Much faster than opening however many thousands using notepad and guessing.

Hope this helps.

Claudius (What certifications??)

http://www.iteq.com.au