found.000 (W2K)

[crono_79]

i have a HD with win98 installed and working properly, i installed this hd as slave in a Win2k machine so it boots win2k, inside win2k i did a scandisk to the win98 HD and now i've noticed a folder named found.000 and when i select it it says that the folder is corrupted and unreadable.

what does this means? how do i delete it?

i decided to post the hole story cause i dont know if this folder was there before and i just didnt noticed it or if win2k scandisk found this.

any help would be appreciated

[Xavier_Ao]

Here's some info on chkdsk I quote from Microsoft's Technet website:

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"Because some repairs, such as correcting lost clusters (also knows as allocation units) or cross-linked files, change a volume's file allocation table and can cause data loss, Chkdsk first prompts you with a confirmation message similar to the following:

10 lost allocation units found in 3 chains.
Convert lost chains to files?


If you press N, Windows 2000 fixes the errors on the volume but does not save the contents of the lost clusters. If you press Y, Windows 2000 attempts to identify the folder to which they belong. If the folder is identified, the lost cluster chains are saved there as files. If the folder cannot be identified or if the folder does not exist, it saves each chain of lost clusters in a folder called Found.xxx, where xxx is a sequential number starting with 000. If no folder Found.000 exists, one is created at the root. If one or more sequential folders called Found.xxx (starting at 000) exists, one using the next number in the sequence is created.

After the storage folder has been identified or created, one or more files with a name in the format Filennnn.chk (the first saved file is named File0000.chk, the second is named File0001.chk, and so on in sequence) are saved. When Chkdsk finishes, you can examine the contents of these files with a text editor to see whether they contain any needed data (if the converted chains came from corrupted binary files, they are of no value). You can delete the CHK files after you have saved any useful data."
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Win2k Checkdisk recovered some lost clusters. You should be able to delete them though...
Have you run checkdisk with "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" checked?

Umm...Where's the "Any" key??

[crono_79]

"Have you run checkdisk with "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" checked?"

yup, actually, thats what i did, i thought it was Scandisk, but now that i read the title bar its actually checkdisk.

and i cant delete it, when i hit del on it it says "cannot delete found.000: the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

[crono_79]

problem solved

chkdisk /f made the folder accesible again

just one more question:
inside this folder there are some files named file000x.chk. (where x is a number) i know this files are the ones that chkdisk recovered. the question is, before i ran chkdisk those files were already inaccesible, right? or should i ghost the HD? to have acces to them again (i made an image just before doing this, even before the first checkdisk)
im asking because some of those files belong to a data base stored in this HD (i saw the contents of the files with notepad and recognized some data).

thanks

[adg]

Just delete the files & the folder.

Allan
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