Windows XP reading External Hard Drive

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I made a mistake and chkdsk converted my files into /FAT format.... Now I
cannot see my files using my XP system.

I know that these files 2800 files are in my hard drive.... How could I
recover these files so that I can see it in my XP system.

Please help - Important...
 
Windows XP should be able to read files in the FAT format. When you
ran chkdsk, exactly what messages did it display? It could be your
hard drive is in the process of failing and the sector containing
those files was marked as bad and the files couldn't be recovered.
 
Yes Brian,

chkdsk said that there are lost segments and it ask if I wanted to convert
the links -- I answered yes.

Do you know a way of seeing if these files exist at all or that they may be
wiped out.
 
Do you know of any way to recover these files.... any software or so that can
find those files......
 
Unfortunately that's about all that I know about chkdsk. Hopefully
someone else will provide the answer.

Brian
 
Sam2421 said:
I made a mistake and chkdsk converted my files into /FAT format.... Now I
cannot see my files using my XP system.

I know that these files 2800 files are in my hard drive.... How could I
recover these files so that I can see it in my XP system.

Please help - Important...
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No

chkdsk did not convert your file system to FAT...
it "corrected" the logoical errors and converted the fragments to .chk
files.
 
Sam2421 said:
Do you know of any way to recover these files.... any software or so that can
find those files......
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You can examine the contents of the .chk files with any text editor...
to reassembe the files though...will be very difficult.

If they are text files there may be readable info there...
also if the file lost were jpg images you may rename the chk files to jpg
and see if the images are usable...

but other file types will be fairly difficult to ever reassemble
 
As Philo wrote, you can only attempt to recover parts of the files from the
..chk extension files created in the root of the hard drive. When CHKDSK
recovers fragments they are generally not recoverable or reversible by any
program that would be available to you other than as Philo stated.

It doesn't help now but you should have done backups of all the important
files on the hard drive.
 
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