How do you recover lost files in Win2k?

[Shooters]

My computer froze on me and I had to hit reset to reboot. When I got back to the login name and password screen, I typed in my password, but Win2k gave me an error message saying that it couldn't find the registry files to load the requested profile, so it just loaded a temporary profile. I also found that all the files I was working with when my system froze were now gone, and there's a folder called Found.000 which has a bunch of *.CHK files in it. I'm guessing these are my lost files and profile. Is there any way to recover these?

Thanks,
Shooters

 

[Konboy]

I find doing a format c: at the DOS Prompt does wonders. LMK how it goes.

 

[Shooters]

I'm trying to avoid that alternative.

 

[thirdeye]

try executive software's undelete for nt/2000....i've used it's rather handy to have...whether or not it will do exactly what u want it to do or not but give it a try

 

[Shooters]

I was hoping for something free. If I can't do it then I'll just reformat. I was just wondering if there's a utility in Win2k that can do it. I figured those "found" files have to be there for a reason.

 

[pulpp]

if these were MS word documents or the like, just try opening the CHK files in a text editor, or run them through an ASCII filter like BinText and you will recover your text.

 

[Shooters]

Well, normall I would just try to open them in Notepad like you suggested, but for some reason there's a extremely large number of them.....more than 4000 :Q The main thing I really want are some of my e-mails. They were still sitting in my Inbox and now since I can't seem to log into Windows with my old profile, they're not there anymore when I open Outlook. Does anyone know which directory these are saved in so I can go and try to salvage them. Also, what's this BinText you speak of?