Hello,
I got this problem last night.
Windows XP prompted me that i have some corrupt files on my external usb hard disk & to perform check disk utility.
I ignored the message & worked on this hard disk & when due to some reason i restarted my machine at this time the windows automatically started scanning my external hdd.
One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
\Documents and Settings\Aphrophyre\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\07g7405y.Aphrophyre\localstore.rdf first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be truncated.
Bad links in lost chain at cluster 18880 corrected.
Bad links in lost chain at cluster 18904 corrected.
Bad links in lost chain at cluster 18957 corrected.
Bad links in lost chain at cluster 19242 corrected.
.
.
.
.
It was deleting some index thing & I can see it was going through each & every file & folded presented in my external hdd.
Now when it launched the desktop I noticed in my external hard disk that many files are removed from there original place & moved to a hidden folder known as found0 where there are around 500 sub-folders with all files scattered between all of them. This found folder is about 30gb. Now i don't know if any data is deleted or not IF yes how to recover such data?
I have seagate maxtor 500gb external hdd
Operating system XP pro SP3
I have symantec antivirus software installed.
Please help!
Bookmarks