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To: Steven Bowen who wrote (901)	11/29/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

When I run CHKDSK with the /F option, to fix things, the lost clusters are put into my root directory with the .CHK extension. Hope this helps, PW.

To: Steven Bowen who wrote (901)	11/29/1998 2:36:00 PM
From: jw	Respond to of 110645

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?