CHKDSK made it worse

[ceagle]

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...

Comments

[hastka.livejournal.com]

Hah yeah, I was hoping the article name was not overly direct. :)

I will keep my eyes open. :) But I think the answer is to see about finding flash-aware utilities. Searching around for "flash drive recovery tools" yielded these for example, but I'm sure that's just the tip of that iceberg.

SSD recovery would probably be another good buzzword that I didn't look into. Again, apologies if I'm restating the obvious here, but sometimes the "extra set of eyes" is of value. :)

Anyway, good luck on resolving it. I somewhat know what you're going through, as I had the microSD card in my phone crash a few months ago, and didn't realize it until the corruption was, well, let's just say widespread. Bye-bye images, music, etc. I had an older backup too... but....