These files are created by disk checking programs like Norton Disk
Doctor or ScanDisk.  When they find lost clusters and you tell it to
save the clusters instead of just recovering the file space, a file is
created by this name - one for each set of linked but lost clusters.
You can probably just delete all these files.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Bridges <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 7:29 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] CHK files


> 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.

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