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Situation Windows XP on a DAN computer
I get a Found001 folder which contains CHK files called 'Recoverd File Fragment'
There are 27 Foun00x folders off the C:\
Question what is the cause?

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by hinrgman

Scandisk creats this folder and files. When your computer locks up sometimes it leaves files that were not closed or fragments of files on your hard drive.. When you reboot scandisk finds these fragments and converts then into complete files and names then as CHK files and numbers them in sequence starting at 0001. Unless you lost an important file when you rebooted these files and folders can be deleted, with caution. They usually are placed in a temp folder or in the root directory of the boot drive.

by guy

Could 27 such records indicate a boot Problem?
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by gigelul

In addition to answer1 you can try to edit this file with Quikview or Notepad maybe you can see from which files are these CHK.
Generaly if your system work properly you can safe delete this files but this means that your system was not properly shutdown or have a problem when perform shutdown.

by guy

Could 27 such records indicate a boot Problem?
guy@computerperformance.co.uk

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