Had errors, but no more but weird files

[Guest Mark G.]

One of my drives was indicating disk errors and wanted to do a check disk in

xp pro. The drive itself is NTFS and is about 250gigi SATA HDD. Anyhow, I

let it do the check error upon reboot of my machine and it seems I no longer

have that issue, but now, on that hard drive is a folder called "found.000".

Inside it is various files such as .mp3's which are similar if not the same

as files already on my machine. Are these duplicate files or bad files? The

disk health of this drive indicates the disk is fine, but I want to double

check. Are there any good freeware programs out there that confirm the

status or health of this disk? So what could have caused this to happen with

that folder and those files? Did something get too fragmented? And lastly,

what do I do with those files that are there? Thanks much for your insight

and such!

[Guest Rey Santos]

RE: Had errors, but no more but weird files

 

If you were prompted for something like this:

 

"10 lost allocation units found in 3 chains.

Convert lost chains to files? (Y/N)"

 

 

And if you press the Y key, Windows XP Professional attempts to identify the

folder to which they belong. If the folder is identified, the lost cluster

chains are saved as files.

 

If Windows XP Professional cannot identify the folder 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) exist, a folder that uses the next number in the

sequence is created.

 

See more here:

 

Windows XP Resource Kit: Troubleshooting Disks and File Systems

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457122.aspx#ECAA

 

 

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Rey

 

 

"Mark G." wrote:

> One of my drives was indicating disk errors and wanted to do a check disk in

> xp pro. The drive itself is NTFS and is about 250gigi SATA HDD. Anyhow, I

> let it do the check error upon reboot of my machine and it seems I no longer

> have that issue, but now, on that hard drive is a folder called "found.000".

> Inside it is various files such as .mp3's which are similar if not the same

> as files already on my machine. Are these duplicate files or bad files? The

> disk health of this drive indicates the disk is fine, but I want to double

> check. Are there any good freeware programs out there that confirm the

> status or health of this disk? So what could have caused this to happen with

> that folder and those files? Did something get too fragmented? And lastly,

> what do I do with those files that are there? Thanks much for your insight

> and such!

>

>

>

[Guest DL]

Re: Had errors, but no more but weird files

 

Backup data immediately.

Your HD manufacturers site will have a downloadable checking utility

If it confirms failure replace the hd

 

"Mark G." <askmefirst@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> One of my drives was indicating disk errors and wanted to do a check disk

> in xp pro. The drive itself is NTFS and is about 250gigi SATA HDD. Anyhow,

> I let it do the check error upon reboot of my machine and it seems I no

> longer have that issue, but now, on that hard drive is a folder called

> "found.000". Inside it is various files such as .mp3's which are similar

> if not the same as files already on my machine. Are these duplicate files

> or bad files? The disk health of this drive indicates the disk is fine,

> but I want to double check. Are there any good freeware programs out there

> that confirm the status or health of this disk? So what could have caused

> this to happen with that folder and those files? Did something get too

> fragmented? And lastly, what do I do with those files that are there?

> Thanks much for your insight and such!

>

[Guest Mark G.]

Re: Had errors, but no more but weird files

 

Being that my current motherboards onboard SATA controller went out sometime

back, I ended up using a PCI bootable SATA controller card and this

particular hard drive is on of my SATA drives. Mostly all music, so luckily,

I can see where the files are missing from and just restore them back. But

with the HDD configured this with through the PCI controller, I can not

access the disk health through JBOD and therefore can not do anything until

I upgrade the computer this weekend. In the meantime, all is backed up to

another external drive. I wonder if part of the problem that caused this is

that PCI controller for the SATA? What do you all think? Have never had

issues with this drive before. It has been connected this way for about a

year now. Is a Western Digital 250gig drive. Thanks much for any further

input.

 

 

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message

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> Backup data immediately.

> Your HD manufacturers site will have a downloadable checking utility

> If it confirms failure replace the hd

>

> "Mark G." <askmefirst@comcast.net> wrote in message

> news:OtuOAed9HHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>> One of my drives was indicating disk errors and wanted to do a check disk

>> in xp pro. The drive itself is NTFS and is about 250gigi SATA HDD.

>> Anyhow, I let it do the check error upon reboot of my machine and it

>> seems I no longer have that issue, but now, on that hard drive is a

>> folder called "found.000". Inside it is various files such as .mp3's

>> which are similar if not the same as files already on my machine. Are

>> these duplicate files or bad files? The disk health of this drive

>> indicates the disk is fine, but I want to double check. Are there any

>> good freeware programs out there that confirm the status or health of

>> this disk? So what could have caused this to happen with that folder and

>> those files? Did something get too fragmented? And lastly, what do I do

>> with those files that are there? Thanks much for your insight and such!

>>

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