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Weird files/ folders on the USB flash drive

Some of the files and folders become weird names, when I click on the weird files, the error message "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." appears.
Is there any recovered methods?

The name of files and folders just like in the screenshot.
http://i877.photobucket.com/albums/ab337/Imwithstupid11/8gbFlashDriveMystery.png

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Ernie Beek

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Shane McKeown

First step I would take is to run a chkdsk on the usb drive

Open My Computer
Right click USB drive
Select Properties
Select Tools
Click Check Now and let it repair the drive

The size of the files are hugh, see if the repair will help - did you have files on the drive that size to begin with?

bbkevin

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Hi, I tried chkdsk, but not successfully repair.
The file's original size is a doc file and very small, but don't know why all the doc files renamed to strange filename and those size become very large.

Shane McKeown

Ok go with @erniebeek suggestion and get Recuva and see if it will recover the files

When you ran chkdsk did it fail? Or did it run complete without errors?

bbkevin

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chkdisk complete without errors...

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btan

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bbkevin

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I think the files has been overwrite or corrupted...
But thanks for yours opinions.