lexi73

Hey everyone,
I'm a new member with a huge problem. I'm a photographer and I take many photos every week. I usually stick to a good backup plan but this one caught me in between backup cycles. I've looked everywhere and i cant find any further info. I just dont want to give up on it until i know it's a lost cause. Sorry if this is long.

Story:
beginning of May I backed up all files from a 500GB WD external to an terabyte WD external drive. 3 Weeks pass and I'm working on some files for clients and the computer freezes....Try everything to restart and nothing works. Hold the power button in and restart. I was not around when the computer restarted and it automatically started Checkdsk on my 500gig drive and converted many files into .chk files and placed them in the root of the drive in a folder named "Found.001". There were a total of 10000 .chk files in this folder ranging from FILE0000.CHK to FILE9999.CHK.

I've recovered all the files within the checkdsk directory but I'm still missing 100's of files accounting for gigs worth of images. Just my luck that most of the files that are in the Found.001 folder were backed up in my early may backup.

When i look at the properties of the entire drive it shows that I only have 4 free gigs out of the 465GB of the formatted drive, but when i look at the properties for each folder in the root it only adds up to just over 200GB. I've found the Checkdsk log and the command to delete folders and it automatically answered yes for me.

Questions:
1. Does CheckDsk only export files up to 10000? is this why my files stopped at FILE9999.CHK?
2. Are the other files that were not exported and changed into .CHK files still on the drive somewhere or were they automatically deleted?
3. Is there any hope to recover files that were not within the Checkdsk Directory?

I'd really appreciate any help you can offer...I feel robbed of my files!

Ian