I have an external USB drive, formatted as NTFS. It has started to fail, and has a number of bad sectors. I have been able to recover most of the data, but one directory was giving errors so I ran CHKDSK /f on the disk.
CHKDSK did not complete, failing because it ran out of space (there was at the time around 40gb free out of 500gb). After it ran, the problematic directory became empty, and CHKDSK left a found.000 file in the root. I think normally this would be a directory full of .chk files, but in this case the found.000 file itself is corrupt - in info screen, it shows a "size" of "17356456 bytes (,.))/0(,0 bytes)" but "size on disk" of 4.00kb. So even the actual size can't be figured out by the OS.
I have now deleted some additional files to give the disk more space, but CHKDSK will not complete (it hangs). I'm wondering if there is some way I can un-corrupt this found.000 file, as I suspect it will contain the missing files from the directory in question.
Any ideas?
