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Susan Lammi

01-20-2004, 03:44 PM

I am running Windows 2000 with a single hardrive partitioned as follows

C: is the system drive formated NTFS
E: is a FAT32 partition where I store user files

Today the system was not able to read any data on the E: drive. In My
Computer I could see the E: drive but not any details, properties ect.
The system was very slugish.

I set Chkdsk to run for drive C: on the next reboot. This was successfull
and found only one problem with a bad sector on the Pagesys file which was
corrected.

I then ran chkdsk on the E: drive which resulted in all the files being
labled as file fragments and renamed Filennn.chk.

Is there any way to recover any of these files in a usable form.....?

Thanks

Joep

01-20-2004, 05:10 PM

Hello,

Probably a recovery tool that scans the disk on a sector level can find back
the directories and recover files that way. iRecover is such a program
(http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuurstra/irecover.htm).

Another option is to examine the filennnn.chk files and rename them so their
extension agin reflects the content of the chk file. Our tool CHK-Mate can
be tried to accomplish this
(http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuurstra/chkmate.htm).

Good luck!
Joep

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"Susan Lammi" <slammi@LessSpam.earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I am running Windows 2000 with a single hardrive partitioned as follows
>
> C: is the system drive formated NTFS
> E: is a FAT32 partition where I store user files
>
> Today the system was not able to read any data on the E: drive. In My
> Computer I could see the E: drive but not any details, properties ect.
> The system was very slugish.
>
> I set Chkdsk to run for drive C: on the next reboot. This was successfull
> and found only one problem with a bad sector on the Pagesys file which was
> corrected.
>
> I then ran chkdsk on the E: drive which resulted in all the files being
> labled as file fragments and renamed Filennn.chk.
>
> Is there any way to recover any of these files in a usable form.....?
>
> Thanks
>
>

Joep

01-20-2004, 05:10 PM