So I have a big problem, here's what happened.
I was reinstalling Windows XP on my fileserver which consists of 1 30gb hard drive for the OS, 1 200gb hard drive for storage and 1 250gb hard drive also for storage. Windows XP install seemed to go fine and I thought everything was okay but one time when it was rebooting chkdisk started and started to scan, I thought this was odd but I let it do it's thing. Well what started coming up on the screen was "Recovering orphaned file" and a bunch of numbers and stuff, it did this for a whole bunch of files. I've never seen this before so I just let it go figuring everything would be okay after.
I was wrong......
When I went to one of my storage drives later on I found that a lot of the video files I have on there were pieces of music files I have stored on the hard drive as well, instead of the video file it's supposed to be. A lot of the video files are like this, but not all of them. Some of them are corrupt as well and will not play.
Has anyone ever heard of this happening and do you know of anything I can do to get the files back to the way they were?
As far as I know it just happened for video files, nothing else seems to be corrupt.
I was reinstalling Windows XP on my fileserver which consists of 1 30gb hard drive for the OS, 1 200gb hard drive for storage and 1 250gb hard drive also for storage. Windows XP install seemed to go fine and I thought everything was okay but one time when it was rebooting chkdisk started and started to scan, I thought this was odd but I let it do it's thing. Well what started coming up on the screen was "Recovering orphaned file" and a bunch of numbers and stuff, it did this for a whole bunch of files. I've never seen this before so I just let it go figuring everything would be okay after.
I was wrong......
When I went to one of my storage drives later on I found that a lot of the video files I have on there were pieces of music files I have stored on the hard drive as well, instead of the video file it's supposed to be. A lot of the video files are like this, but not all of them. Some of them are corrupt as well and will not play.
Has anyone ever heard of this happening and do you know of anything I can do to get the files back to the way they were?
As far as I know it just happened for video files, nothing else seems to be corrupt.