
You need to tick off 'hidden folder' in 'View' on the top of File Explorer to show this folder.How Do I Recover CHK Files Using CMDUsually when you find your files are converted to CHK files, if the files or data are not quite important and there are backups, you don't need to try this CHK file recovery method to recover the data and you can just delete the folder and CHK files contained in it to save the storage space. Then the Windows built-in chkdsk (check disk) tool will automatically run and create Found.000 folder and transfer all chk files (fragmented files) into this folder.To sum up, chk files are just corrupted data produced by check disk tool while Found.000 folder is created by Windows to contain them.Īnd the folder is hidden by default. What are CHK files and can we recover files from Found.000 folder?.What're CHK Files and Found.000 Folder?Chk files are fragmented files, which are produced when the process of writing files into a volume is stopped in the middle or when files are not saved before the sudden shutdown of your PC. But sometimes, they find a lot of CHK files appearing in Found.000 folder while files and photos disappear from their hard drive, SD card, USB drive. In most cases, common Windows users will not see strange files with.chk extension and a folder called Found.000.

Is there any software that I don't have to purchase that will open and repair these files and put them back as they should be which is.jpeg files?The above question is raised in Microsoft Community. Now I have a lot of.chk files that I can't open. I lost pictures when transferring them from a memory card to PC.
