Please explain the "FOUND" folder after chkdsk
Running Windows 7 SP-1 32-bit, I recently used chkdsk to check and repair a drive which contains a few TB of data. Over 100 GB of files appeared in a "FOUND" folder. Apparently these were salvaged, after having been corrupted? I'd appreciate an explanation about this. Where these files and folders originally resided is not immediately apparent.
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Thank you both. It is difficult to determine whether data has been lost, because 3 TB of it are contained in the drive which was checked. The FOUND.000 folder contains mostly intact files, which open normally. It would be a challenge to find where those files originated, so I'm planning to keep them, on the remote chance they may be useful later.
in most cases, i just delete them; i never found it worthwile keeping them
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Understood.
These files are partial or corrupted file found during the scan