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# Have you ever lost important files after Scandisk
or Chkdsk 'repaired' the file system?
The Windows Chkdsk and Scandisk utilities are designed to verify
the file system, and (if required) to return the file system to
a consistent state. File system inconsistencies can
occur after an operating system crash.
# Did Scandisk or Chkdsk convert your files to Filexxxx.chk files?
When recovering the file system to a consistent state, lost or
cross-linked clusters
will be reset to 'available' when the file system is verified.
The contents of these cluster(s) will be saved to a '.CHK file' (Filexxxx.CHK).
# Did you ever wonder if there was something useful in those
filexxxx.chk files?
While CHK files may contain garbage, prior to deleting them it
is wise to examine the contents of these files. This is especially
true if you lost files after a system or application crash: the
CHK files may contain the contents of the lost files. Unfortunately
Windows does not offer a tool that allows you to do so in an easy way.
CHK-Mate is a utility that should have been 'standard issue'.
CHK-Mate will examine the contents of the CHK files and
determine if the contents are known filetypes, such as MS-Word
files or GIF files. When
contents are recognized (for example, as a Word document), the
CHK
files are copied to a new file with the correct file extension
(Filexxxx.CHK -> Filexxxx.DOC). The new file extension allows
you to easily open the file using the associated program.
If the contents of a CHK file can not be linked to a known
filetype, you have the option to extract all the readable text
from the CHK file. Use this option to recover information from a
CHK file that is perhaps not intact enough to be recovered
completely as a known filetype.
| CHK-Mate Features: |
| CHK-Mate determines
the content-type of CHK files |
| CHK-Mate copies the contents of
the CHK file to a file with the appropriate extension |
| CHK-Mate recognizes the following
file types by default: JPG, GIF, ZIP, CAB, EXE, DLL, OCX,
WRI, BMP, DOC, PPT, XLS, PDF, HTM(L), WAV, MID, AVI, RAR,
TIF and MP3. |
| Easily add more file
types yourself |
| A simple 3 step wizard
interface |
| Start program from .chk
file context menu |
| CHK-Mate is File System independent |
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