<P align=center> WHAT ARE .CHK FILES?
Windows 95/98 will automatically run the Scandisk maintenance application (Scandisk.exe) following an improper system shutdown or a critical disk error. You should run ScanDisk at least once a month as part of your PC maintenance. Scandisk will often find files or parts of files that appear to have no properly formed beginnings, it marks these chunks of data as .chk files and saves them to the root directory. These .chk files could be part of a document you were working on when your computer crashed or a portion of an unsuccessfully exited program, driver, or temp file that was in use at some point on the computer. If you open the .chk files in Notepad or Wordpad, you may find useful text that you want to keep. These files may have become corrupt during an improper shutdown or program error, freeze and contain useless data. Once you salvage anything from the .chk files that you want to keep, you can delete the files safely. Chk files are no longer used by Windows and just take up space on your hard drive.
