On Wednesday, October 20, 1999 5:29 PM,  Mike Bridges
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:


> I have one Windows 95 system that is about to run out of hard drive
> space but really doesn't have much on it.While trying to find out what
> was filling the drive up I ran across quite a few File0000.chk files.
> Most of these were only several kb and did not concern me but I found
> one that was 151 mb and several others that were above 10 mb each.
>  Could someone please explain what these files are and why I can or
> can't delete them.I do not know what to open them with to see for
> myself.
> Thank you,

Whenever you run a disk scan and repair tool, such as ScanDisk or
 ChkDsk (depending on your operating system), the default action when
finding errors on the hard disk (such as invalid clusters) is to
 save the affected files as a .CHK file, thus "repairing" the error.

CHK files can be deleted. If you wish, the files probably can be safely
deleted  without any problems (use your discretion). You, however, may want
to first examine these files with a file hex editor (if you have
 such a program), checking to see if there is any data contained in
 the .CHK files that you would like to recover. (This info is only
applicable to MS-DOS based computers, whether or not  they are using
Windows).  HTH. :-)

Walter
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