FOUND Recovered File Fragments after power interuption

[Guest Retired Navy]

Dear Sirs,

 

Yesterday, some thunderboomers and heavy duty lightning came thru early evening, and the juice kicked off and back on before I could get this rig shutdown, and it restarted her improperly, and the auto Chkdsk ran, but I didn't get to read what it offered me to do when it found errors, which it did, I got sidetracked with the aerial bombardment.

 

On the root of my hard drive containing Windows XP, there is now a

File Folder, named FOUND.000

It's 4.03 MB and holds 123 files, of Recovered File Fragments, named

(FILE0000.CHK

24.0 KB, Yesterday, July 20, 2008, 8:41:18 PM

to

FILE0122.CHK

156 KB, Yesterday, July 20, 2008, 8:41:18 PM).

 

At the time of power interuption, all I was using was Firefox, and I think I also had OE open, nothing appears missing in my OE folders, and I opened a few of the .CHK files with Firefox and they indeed are peices of web pages, icons, pics, ect...

 

So I guess I can just delete the whole FOUND.000 folder, correct ?

 

This happened once before ages ago, I forgot what I did, just curious, and mainly my reason for posting, to know,

what were my options after the scan,

to either delete right then, or,

save to files which I guess is the default when you don't chose ?

 

Thanks,

An OldBosn in The Boondocks

 

S U P P O R T O U R T R O O P S

 

U. S. N A V Y

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: FOUND Recovered File Fragments after power interuption

 

Yes, delete the Found.000 folder. Abrupt loss of power prevents the PC

from committing data changes to the drive. NTFS format is a transactional

drive format and is somewhat resilient to data corruption. However, these

days I would recommend that everyone use a UPS. You can get a unit that

provides 6-10 Minutes of backup for less than ~$35. Connect the PC and

any Broadband connectivity equipment to the UPS.

 

 

"Retired Navy" <OldBosn@SeaNoMore_302Fuelie_F150.4x4> wrote in message

news:%23aisgRy6IHA.3856@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

Dear Sirs,

 

Yesterday, some thunderboomers and heavy duty lightning came thru early

evening, and the juice kicked off and back on before I could get this rig

shutdown, and it restarted her improperly, and the auto Chkdsk ran, but I

didn't get to read what it offered me to do when it found errors, which it

did, I got sidetracked with the aerial bombardment.

 

On the root of my hard drive containing Windows XP, there is now a

File Folder, named FOUND.000

It's 4.03 MB and holds 123 files, of Recovered File Fragments, named

(FILE0000.CHK

24.0 KB, Yesterday, July 20, 2008, 8:41:18 PM

to

FILE0122.CHK

156 KB, Yesterday, July 20, 2008, 8:41:18 PM).

 

At the time of power interuption, all I was using was Firefox, and I think I

also had OE open, nothing appears missing in my OE folders, and I opened a

few of the .CHK files with Firefox and they indeed are peices of web pages,

icons, pics, ect...

 

So I guess I can just delete the whole FOUND.000 folder, correct ?

 

This happened once before ages ago, I forgot what I did, just curious, and

mainly my reason for posting, to know,

what were my options after the scan,

to either delete right then, or,

save to files which I guess is the default when you don't chose ?

 

Thanks,

An OldBosn in The Boondocks

 

S U P P O R T O U R T R O O P S

 

U. S. N A V Y