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Important: Save yourself some trouble. If you already know the extension of the file(s) you want to get back, just rename all your CHK files to the desired extension and see what works. The programs here are for when you have way too many CHK files to test or when you have way too many different file extensions you want to recover.

So what is a CHK file? Well, any time a program or Windows crashes, any files that were open are not closed properly. Part of closing is writing all the file location information in all the right places. Without this info, Windows can't find all the parts of the file. When SCANDISK or CHKDISK is run, all the parts are identified as 'lost file fragments' and converted (if you want) into CHK files. Nba 2k17 free online download. Face it. Stuff crashes all the time. If you only run SCANDISK once a month, you get a month's worth of old crash junk. If you were working on (and lost) something important just before a crash, you might want to try to recover any data from any CHK files that exist. On the other hand, if you aren't in a state of panic over lost data, just delete any CHK files. A handy tip: Keep your disk defragmented. That way if you ever do lose it all, the lost file fragments will be more likely to be complete files.

File Recovery and Viruses This is unavoidable. If file is infected and it gets recovered, your antivirus may complain that the recovery program wrote the virus. Which is true. And really, a fair percentage of all recoveries are due to a poorly-written virus causing file system problems. So when the recovery program renames a file from 'chk' to 'exe' and your antivirus pops up, please remember that your problem is the recovered file, not the program that recovered it!

Welcome Competition! A nice guy named Martin Kratz wrote a utility to compete with my UnCHK program. Amazingly, he sent me the source code. So.. I compiled it and am offering it here for your consideration. Pay attention: Read the next paragraph about MSVBM50. Now. I'll wait.. Apparently some ne'er-do-wells are using the normal 'file missing' message from Martin's FileCHK program to scare you into installing something bad. Don't be fooled. The respected Virus Total analysis has been giving FileCHK a clean bill of health since 2008.

Both programs need the Visual Basic 5 runtime files. If you receive a MSVBM50.dll not found error, you can get the required files from Microsoft.

Now you have two open-source CHK file recovery programs to choose from! I'll do a side-by-side comparison:

	UnCHK(Eric Phelps)	FileCHK(Martin Kratz)
Out-of-box supported file types	JPG PSP PSD GIF ZIP CAB EXE DLL OCX WRI BMP DOC PPT XLS PDF RTF HTM WAV MID AVI RAR TIF MP3 WPD FPX EPS CLP	3DS TIF EXE BMP SWF PSD AI GIF PST CAB RAR CHM MID PDF ZIP HLP MP3 DWG MPG LNK URL HTM JPG TTF MDB MOV QT DOC XLS RMI WAV AVI CDR TXT ASF
Can add more file types?	Yes, just drag a good file and drop it on the program (only applies if that file type has a standard header).	No.
Alters CHK files?	No. Makes a copy of the CHK file and gives the copy the correct extension.	Yes. Renames the original CHK file so it has the correct extension.
Recovers any CHK file?	Yes. Anything with a CHK file extension is checked. This makes things more flexible.	No. Only acts on files named like 'FILE####.CHK'. This makes things safer in case there are legitimate files with CHK extensions.
Identifies files by file header?	Yes. Also looks inside some files in an inexact way to try to discriminate between different types of files that share the same header.	Yes. Also reads inside the file in a more exact way to tell different files that use the same header apart.
Looks inside CHK files to recover cross-linked files?	Yes (if you choose the 'hard disk' option).	No.
Looks inside CHK files to recover embedded items?	Yes (if you choose the 'embedded files' option).	No.
Runs fast?	Fast enough. And it has a percentage done indicator so you'll know whether you have time for lunch.	Yes. You won't believe it.
Has cool graphical interface?	Cool? Well.. It has an interface.	No. No way. None at all. Except for the 'Done' message when it finishes.
Stable?	It works for me.	Always. It's too simple to break.
Selectable directory?	Yes. You pick what directory CHK files are in and what directory you want recovered files to be in. The program itself can be anywhere.	No. Put the program in the same directory as your CHK files and run it.
False negative or false positive recoveries?	About a quarter the files it recovers are either mis-named duplicates (which can't be opened) or fragments (which you might not be able to open). But it allows you to choose scan depth options so you can decide how to trade off missed files and false detections.	Might not recover a file fragment and never recovers a cross-linked file, but the files it does recover can more likely be opened without errors.

The UnCHK program link above (at the top of the comparison table) is for version 3.
Version 3 was built for Windows 2000, but might work on computers as old as Windows 95 view the Virus Total report.
Version 2 was built for Windows 95, but might work on computers as new as NT4 view the Virus Total report.
Version 1 was built for Windows 3.1 and might work on computers as new as NT4 view the Virus Total report.
I recommend you use the newest version that applies, because the older versions really needed the fixes and features that are in later versions!

Other free recovery programs
PC INSPECTOR File Recovery A generic file and disk recovery program.
Avira UnErase From the people who also provide the free Avira antivirus
PC INSPECTOR Smart Recovery Recovers jpg, tif, bmp, gif, crw, raf, raw, orf, dcr, mrw, nef, x3f, avi, mov, wav, and dss image and multimedia files from most digital camera removable memory devices.
Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery Recovers GIF, JPG, TIF, WAV, MOV, and CRW. This dedicated image recovery utility was made to recover digital camera data, so it recovers an entire drive.. which means use it on a mounted camera or CF/SD card, not to recover a few CHK files on a normal hard drive!
If you've lost your entire hard drive and you already tried fixing it with ScanDisk, then UnChk and FileChk (or something like them) may be your only hope. Once you run scandisk or do anything else to a bad drive (like running a program or copying a file), you make changes to the 'File Allocation Table' (FAT) that helps track where the files are (were) actually stored. If you lost your entire hard drive, your FAT probably got damaged by an accident that killed Windows while it was busy updating the table. If you use Scandisk, it goes th

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