My partition turned into .CHK files, Please help!

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by crazy.works, Jan 11, 2010.

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    Hello, yesterday i was doing some important coding on my pc, suddenly the pc shutdowned. when i turned it on again i got Boot Error in one of my partitions ( F:\).

    in that partition very important data and scripts. so i didn't format it, i tried to fix it....And i made my biggest mistake when i pressed right click on it and i ran and SCANDISK(right click=>tools tab=>Error Checking)....

    THe SCANDISK didn't fix the partition Boot Error... so i tried another program called "Partition Table Doctor" and it did it, that program fixed the Bot Error from the F: partition..

    After that i opened the partition and i shocked when i saw that the windows SCANDISK which i ran previously converted all my folders and files to .CHK files!!! :mad: ...more than 30Gb got converted to thousands of .CHK files :mad:

    Now i searched google for that issue and i have found that article
    http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives...ver-chk-files-created-by-chkdsk-and-scandisk/

    I tried to use the second program from the article (UnCHK by Eric Phelps), it works. But here is the problem...what SCANDISK done is removing all the folders and renaming all the files to Filexxxx.CHK, so that program only reading the files header to rename the extensions again...

    So if i used this program i will get thousands of files called Filexxxx.zzz in the partition root directory and that would be disaster for me because i had hundreds of important scripts that i have made and the folders directories are so important for my data !!!

    so please help me, how can i reverse this stupid SCANDISK to get the files and the folders with the directories back ???
    thanks
     
    crazy.works, Jan 11, 2010 IP
  2. Sam.Lewis

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    "http://www.ericphelps.com/uncheck/"

    check this site out. See what you can do.
     
    Sam.Lewis, Jan 11, 2010 IP
  3. kss128

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    I think you have to partition again
    Before that Plug ur Hard disk to norther computer and run data recovery tool and back you'r data. After that You should Re partition Entire hard Drive.
     
    kss128, Jan 11, 2010 IP
  4. crazy.works

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    thanks guys, i fixed it, i got everything back with program called "GetDataBack for FAT 3.63" :)
     
    crazy.works, Jan 12, 2010 IP