OT: bizarre file disappearing act when XP installed

Ofnuts:

>> Here's what I think might have happened. I think the drive might
>> have been formatted fat32 (although it shouldn't have been) and xp
>> pro converted the drive to ntfs and somehow these files were
>> misplaced in the process.
>
> Not too likely. The CHK.00X are the result of a disk check which
> finds problems in the file system (for instance, disk space allocated
> but not accounted for in the directory structure.

But the only way a problem could have developed was when XP pro read the
drive for the first time. I didn't have the drive attached when I
installed then when I was up and running I connected the extra drive. XP
ran a chkdsk and thats when everything went kaplooey.

On 13 May 2008 13:40:36 GMT, Mac Cool <Mac@2cool.com> wrote:

>Ofnuts:
>
>>> Here's what I think might have happened. I think the drive might
>>> have been formatted fat32 (although it shouldn't have been) and xp
>>> pro converted the drive to ntfs and somehow these files were
>>> misplaced in the process.
>>
>> Not too likely. The CHK.00X are the result of a disk check which
>> finds problems in the file system (for instance, disk space allocated
>> but not accounted for in the directory structure.
>
>But the only way a problem could have developed was when XP pro read the
>drive for the first time. I didn't have the drive attached when I
>installed then when I was up and running I connected the extra drive. XP
>ran a chkdsk and thats when everything went kaplooey.
Obviously Chkdsk found problems on the disk as the CHK.00X as the
result of chkdsk finding problems

DJT