my system runs on Win 98 SE . i use outlook 2000. my system hanged when i opened outlook & when i restarted all my mails were gone for toss. the .pst file where i stored all my mails were missing. when i ran scandisk it deleted my .pst file to file003.chk i renamed this .chk file back to .pst. then i got all my mails. am attaching the log that is created by scandisk below.
Directory entry D:\EXCHANGE\SRINIVAS had a damaged ‘.’ entry.
ScanDisk successfully corrected the directory entry.
ScanDisk deleted the directory entry.
Directory entry D:\EXCHANGE\SRINIVAS\? ? ?.X?? contained invalid
characters in its filename.
ScanDisk deleted the directory entry.
Directory entry D:\EXCHANGE\SRINIVAS\NU88?.r contained invalid
characters in its filename.
ScanDisk deleted the directory entry.
Directory entry D:\EXCHANGE\SRINIVAS\???.??? had an invalid first
cluster.
ScanDisk deleted the directory entry.
Directory entry D:\EXCHANGE\SRINIVAS\??
.?y contained invalid
characters in its filename.
ScanDisk deleted the directory entry.
Directory entry D:\EXCHANGE\SRINIVAS\?.99 had invalid attributes.
ScanDisk deleted the directory entry.
Directory entry D:\EXCHANGE\SRINIVAS\,0 $(.,02 contained invalid
characters in its filename.
ScanDisk deleted the directory entry.
File allocation table
Directory entry D:\EXCHANGE\SRINIVAS had an invalid FAT chain.
ScanDisk did not correct the FAT chain.
File system