CHKDSK made it worse

Just so you know... (so maybe it doesn't need to happen to you)

Something I don't think I've seen before: On a flashdrive, I opened a folder to see that most of the names of files were jumbled into some crazed mess.. not all of them.. maybe half... perhaps because of some unicode or utf issue?

Not sure... but I took the thumbdrive to another machine... pretty much the same thing there.

So I fired up the ole CHKDSK whish is supposed to FIX drive errors.... what does it do? IT ELIMINATED THE ENTIRE FOLDER.

*facepalms*

I do have a backup, although not too recent, and not sure exactly where it is... so I probably did lose some things in that folder (help apps for customers, so no personal data, luckily).

Also wondering if the flashdrive is on its way out... but no integrity errors were found :|

Be careful out there...