Steve, I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding while your computer is on, it's making a copy of whatever you're doing into memory. Now if power goes off, or you don't shut down properly, then whatever you're doing goes into a .chk file on C:\. After power on you can open these .chk files and recover what you were doing. I know this sounds crude and maybe someone can help. However I check my C:\ drive and when I see the .chk files I just delete them. Have never gotten into trouble yet. Use the WildCard approach....C:\>del *.chk, enter and they are all gone. Do you have the boxes checked in ScanDisk, Standard and Automatically Fix Errors?
The others, Log,Dilog,Bootlog,Detlog,etc,.log,.old?, I only have a couple and don't worry about them.I think Autoexec.bat, Config.sys should not be deleted. How about copying the Log,Dilog BootLog etc; files to A:\floppy to be retrieved just in case. Again use WildCard,
C:\copy *.Log A:, C:\copy *.BootLog A:, C:\copy *.Detlog A:\. Or if Wildcard doesn't work copy each one to A:.
I'm sure you could delete all the .chk files without doing harm.
Regards, /jw
edit: are you running ScanDisk from Win95? Start/Programs/Accessories/
System Tools/ScanDisk? |
