hi, the problem is that while i was listening to some music, my pc crashed. I restarted it, and when it started up again, scandisk automatically ran.

I then went back onto the drive where all my music and documents where stored, and scandisk had turned them into thousands of chk files! I've tried running scandisk again, but now it tells me it is unable to write to the drive! Some help please!

Thanks,

Stu.

:tup:

Run sfc /scannow in START RUN to check Windows System files.

Aint tried that yet, but anyone else any idea's that might solve it?

sometimes Scandisk yanks entire files and renames them with the .CHK extension. Here's two ways to (sometimes) identify and restore these mysterious files. The easiest way is if you already know what the file might be: for example, Scandisk does its thing, you come up missing a .GIF file, and you have a .CHK file that looks to be about the same file size. The file is probably named FILE0000.CHK; rename it FILE0000.GIF and try to open it with your usual graphics viewer. If it opens, fine. If not, delete it. The second way comes into play when you're not sure what the .CHK file might be. Open the mystery file in WordPad and note the first few characters of the file. They might identify the file type: BM indicates a .BMP file; GIF, a .GIF file, JFIF, a .JPG or .JPEG file; MZ, a program; PK, a .ZIP file. Don't save the file in WordPad! Rename it using the proper extension and try to open it using the proper application. If it opens, great. If not, delete it.

Dump that ME and install XP

Please can someone tell me why i cant access the drive though? I get an access denied message when i try to create folders or files. However i can read the drive perfectly ok, can open up the chk files that are word 1's, it comes up with the author when i scan over them.