Disk Consistency Check

[burns flipper]

I wrote an app a few years ago that scans the headers of the files named *.chk and renames the file extension for known formats - so at least you can get any pictures/vids/mp3/docs back. Please find attached.

It's written as a macro in VBA in Excel, and I only wrote it to recover stuff when the same happened to me, so you may need to go into the VB back-end and change hardcoded paths. It also supports Amiga files such as .library, and strips off the gunk from the end of files for jpg, html and mp3 so you don't get any extra noise added from the chkdsk process (it usually recovers the whole cluster which is why your new filesizes are divisible by 8, since chkdsk doesn't know where your file stops, meaning it adds extra noise past the EOF marker).

I had a quick look at the code and you'll need to call it manually, by running the sub recFls("root",0), after you've changed the paths and folCnt to match the number of FOUND folders you have.

[Stephen Coates]

Thanks. I'll have a fiddle with it. I guess I'll have to install Visual Basic and MS Office.

Fortunately, the files are easy to identify in Linux because it doesn't use the file extension and just tells me what it is.

It did another consistency check the other day and made a FOUND.001 directory containing another 10000 files. Looks mostly like clipart.

I remember at the end of the check it complained about lack of space on the disk.