Restoring Scandisk .chk files

[bigcaesar]

My Boss has just taken delivery of a brand new shiny Sony Vaio. He also has a six gigabyte Amacom flipdisk. Apparently,he inserted the flipdisk into the Vaio and once Windows 2000 recognised the drive as an atapi device, without any intervention from him went away and performed what appeared to be Scandisk. The end result is a drive with 10000 .chk files which he doesn't know how to recover.
I think we are screwed but does anyone know idf there is any way of recovering these files to their former state.

Thanks in advance
JimT

 

[mbaranski]

If you know what ther are, just rename them, otherwise you're pretty much sunk...

MWB>

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[bigcaesar]

Thanks for your reply,
I already did what you said but we are talking about 10000 files. Not really very practical.
I thought I was sunk before I posted the question but you have to ask these things

JimT

 

[mbaranski]

Yeah, hopefully they're netscape cache files or something stupid, otherwise, it could be difficult. If you know what most of them are, you could try writing a perl script or something that looks at them and tries to determine what type of file they are and renames the extension accordingly, that will be a lot of work, but depends on how valualbe they are.

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[brendanhedges]

jimt.

if you think the computor is working ok 'as is'. then these files are proberbly redundent.

i would cut n' paste these files to a directory in c: for a while and if the comp works fine and all your work is ok and backed up then delete them.

.chk files are mainly lost files and clusters that scandisk comes accross whilst checking your HDD. it stores these as a failsafe for you automaticly.

generally you wouldn't even know these files ever existed if scandisk had not told you about them.

good luck