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    What app. to help me recover from disk corruption?

    A few days ago something failed (PSU/HDD/RAM?) resulting in my Archives directory having dozens of undeletable folders and files being created in it. Scandisk says that it’s fine, the pre-Windows check seems to think that everything is crosslinked.

    I what something that will strike a happy medium and let me choose what action to take. I did try looking on download.com but as there were over 900 applications to search through at 10 per page I gave up after 15 pages. Back in the day I would have just run Norton Utilities’s Disk Doctor on it but nowadays! So the question is does anyone know of a utility DOS or XP that can restore my FAT32 directories to full health?

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    Last edited by Fablanta; 27-06-2007 at 03:17 PM. Reason: Adding more info.

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    Have you actually lost data? Or are you just trying to clean up the undeletable junk folders and files that were created? Also, is this Windows XP?

    If you're using Windows XP and have already run chkdsk c: /f /r then I'd suggest you boot into Safe Mode and see if you can delete the directories.

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    Hi Tim,

    It seems like a version of Chkdsk is the application that gets run before XP boots up properly. It had always cause such carnage on this partition before that had been hitting Reset before it finished.

    For some reason I did not think Chkdsk would run in a DOS session. I vaguely recall something about it saying use Scandisk instead before but that might have been 2 or 3 Windows versions ago. Anyway, I copied my 3 "must have" directories to another partition and ran Chkdsk (without the /R epair) option. It didn't just check, it it actually had a go at repairing stuff as well. I did see some filename scroll past on the truncated and cross-linked files listings that made me wince but nothing too painful. When it had finished I asked it to save the fragments as .CHK files. I ended up with exactly 10,000 files of exactly 16KB which were obviously not worth keeping. I ran it again only this time with the repair option and got similar results. After this pass all of the garbage names were removed. Only time will tell how much hidden damage has been done but for now I am happy.

    Thanks for the help.

    DkA

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    if your looking for data recovery i recommend ontrack, it's always worked for me.

    If you want to delete some difficult files, i find killbox tends to work nicely.

    just to be clear - scandisk is the old 16-bit disk checker, chkdsk is the one in windows xp. you can run it by looking in the start menu - all programs - accessories - system tools. It doesnt run in dos, but if you boot off of your xp cd you can go to the recovery console and run it from there by typing chkdsk /r at the prompt.

    chkdsk can do a good job of recovering your data, but big jobs are beyond it, and sometimes it will try to repair your files and instaed just come up with corrupted garbage. maybe that is what has happened here?
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