Accessing and recovering files in C:\found.001\disk0001.chk

Files disappeared from my computer. On running a system search, they were found in C:\found.001\disk0001.chk

I want to go in there and have a look, if there are other files there too, but it gives me an access denied message. I ran chkdsk but it said no problems.

Ideally I would want to run a recovery utility (not the ones for deleted files) that would restore them all to the respective locations. Though I am lucky, I still have them at this weird place.

I am on windows 7.

There are ways to recover them. Search on google for

• UnCHK http://www.ericphelps.com/uncheck/
• Avira UnErase http://free-av.com/antivirclassic/avira_unerase.html

They are probably the best solution for you.

With these applications, it scans those CHK files and retrieves your files, without breaking the original chk examined one. it's been surely been made after a scandisk of some sort by windows, and it maybe found it corrupted, that's why it finished there.

I had a similar problem, suddenly ALL files from My Pictures disappeared. Notably I was very upset since there were many precious pictures and videos. Sure, I had back-ups but they were unfortunately not up to date.

My situation:

• Lost pictures
• Tried Recuva to retrieve them
• Found out some of them were hidden in C:\found.001\dir0000.chk\Korea
• Ran chkdsk but showed no problems
• Tried to open found.001 but it wouldn't show up in C:\ nor could I go to it manually
• Tried to open dir0000.chk manually but couldn't
• Changing permissions did not allow me access nor would the folders show up in C:\
• I could go directly to C:\found.001\dir0000.chk\Korea but those were only the files from that submap of My Pictures

Here's how I managed to retrieve the files

• Used command prompt (run as administrator) to navigate to the files
• Copied them to an external USB using command prompt

That's all there was to it. I hope anyone who finds this post is able to retrieve some of their precious files this way. Below you can find some of the command I used in navigating command prompt

• cd C:\ (navigates you to C:)
• dir (Shows all files in the directory
• copy C:\hello.txt F:\ (Copies hello.txt to F:)
• xcopy /s /i F:\Folder1\ E:\ (Copies F:\Folder1 and all subfolders and files to E:)

Good luck!