Paul wrote:
> Thanks Doug....
> I would love to re-nter what I had lost, but I don't know where it is.
> Did chkdsk create some sort of new file? I ran a search for the files
> I lost using their file extension syntax, but the files did not show
> up. Fortunately I have a scan log listing all the files, the list is
> 40 pages long and lists files like Word Documents which I now can't
> find. Re-entering right now means, re-typing hundreds of documents of
> which I have hard copies, in order to create another database. I am
> sure they are somewhere, but where. Oh, and they are not back up
> files, they are original files stored on an external harddrive. Virus
> scan does not show up anything and neither does spyware scan.
>
> Paul
>
>>
>> "Paul" <Paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F0A96975-A12F-4901-AD4A-8118A11D6D95@microsoft.com...
>>> I store my important data on an external USB Hardrive. When I
>>> started the
>>> drive up, I got an error message which advised me that one of
>>> my folders was
>>> corrupted, not just a file, but the entire folder. The message
>>> advised me to
>>> run chkdsk to recover the files, which I did. Then the message
>>> to dismount
>>> the volume appeared and I answered Y to it. With the volume
>>> dismounted
>>> message came the message that all open handles to this volume
>>> are now
>>> invalid. CHKDSK then proceeded to fix the disk, deleting
>>> corrupted files and
>>> then recovering orphaned files. At the end of the run,chkdsk
>>> reset the
>>> security id's for some of the files and verified that
>>> operation. Then it
>>> inserted data attributes to those files and corrected errors
>>> in the master
>>> file table. In other words chkdsk did a fine job, I even have
>>> a print out of
>>> what it did. After all was said and done and I re-booted my
>>> computer, the
>>> previously corrupt folder, which was fixed by chkdsk, was
>>> gone. The entire
>>> directory was gone. The only thing that was left was a ghost
>>> folder with
>>> nothing in it. I did a search and nothing came up.
>>> The big question is, what did chkdsk fix and what did it do
>>> with an entire
>>> folder ?
>>> I am running Win XP Home Edition.
>>> External drive is a Ximeta, NetDisk NDAS.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your feed back,
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>> -
>> You wanted the corrupt file fixed...that is what it fixed. Carry
>> on now and re-enter what you lost.
>> -
Make it a priority to learn to backup properly. It sounds like you said you
have the original data on a disk, so ... you do have a restarting point at
least. All is not completely lost. But just think how much easier this
would be had you created backups of your data.
Sorry Paul...I misinterpreted your predicament. I keep my
original documents and spreadsheet files on my harddrive and
BACKUP on USB drives. Be careful with the USB drives...they are
reasonably reliable BUT things can go wrong. Also some utility
pgms designed for the hardrive may or may not do what they are
supposed to do on removable drives.
On really important stuff it doesn't hurt to have more than one
back-up.
I use Karen Kenworthy's "Replicator" for back-ups and it works
like a charm...have never had a screw-up yet (fingers crossed),
and it is FAST.
Doug W.
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"Paul" <Paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1E978F30-7999-4F4A-A1F7-1F3231D87746@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Doug....
> I would love to re-nter what I had lost, but I don't know
> where it is.
> Did chkdsk create some sort of new file? I ran a search for
> the files I lost
> using their file extension syntax, but the files did not show
> up. Fortunately
> I have a scan log listing all the files, the list is 40 pages
> long and lists
> files like Word Documents which I now can't find. Re-entering
> right now
> means, re-typing hundreds of documents of which I have hard
> copies, in order
> to create another database. I am sure they are somewhere, but
> where. Oh, and
> they are not back up files, they are original files stored on
> an external
> harddrive. Virus scan does not show up anything and neither
> does spyware
> scan.
>
> Paul
> --
> Thank you, Paul
>
>
> "Doug" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Paul" <Paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F0A96975-A12F-4901-AD4A-8118A11D6D95@microsoft.com...
>> >I store my important data on an external USB Hardrive. When
>> >I
>> >started the
>> > drive up, I got an error message which advised me that one
>> > of
>> > my folders was
>> > corrupted, not just a file, but the entire folder. The
>> > message
>> > advised me to
>> > run chkdsk to recover the files, which I did. Then the
>> > message
>> > to dismount
>> > the volume appeared and I answered Y to it. With the volume
>> > dismounted
>> > message came the message that all open handles to this
>> > volume
>> > are now
>> > invalid. CHKDSK then proceeded to fix the disk, deleting
>> > corrupted files and
>> > then recovering orphaned files. At the end of the
>> > run,chkdsk
>> > reset the
>> > security id's for some of the files and verified that
>> > operation. Then it
>> > inserted data attributes to those files and corrected
>> > errors
>> > in the master
>> > file table. In other words chkdsk did a fine job, I even
>> > have
>> > a print out of
>> > what it did. After all was said and done and I re-booted my
>> > computer, the
>> > previously corrupt folder, which was fixed by chkdsk, was
>> > gone. The entire
>> > directory was gone. The only thing that was left was a
>> > ghost
>> > folder with
>> > nothing in it. I did a search and nothing came up.
>> > The big question is, what did chkdsk fix and what did it do
>> > with an entire
>> > folder ?
>> > I am running Win XP Home Edition.
>> > External drive is a Ximeta, NetDisk NDAS.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your feed back,
>> >
>> > Paul
>>
>> -
>> You wanted the corrupt file fixed...that is what it fixed.
>> Carry
>> on now and re-enter what you lost.
>> -
>>
>>
"Alan" <inthegalaxy@solarsystem.huh> wrote in message
news:udcofnqjHHA.1624@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Frank, Maincat and Bob I: All of you are correct about the OP using the
> external hard drive for his main data storage media. I shouldn't have
> assumed that the external hard drive was his backup.
Have you tried signing on as Administrator in Safe Mode?
What anti-virus are you using?
Re: chkdsk/f 
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