These files are created by scandisk. When scandisk finds a cross linked file
or lost cluster, it attempts to save the data in *.chk files. There's really
no reason why you can't delete them; they're notoriously difficult to
restore anyway.

-----Original Message-----

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

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