If your PC doesn't shut down properly, Windows will run

Scandisk the next time you boot. If it finds lost fragments,

it will delete them for you. Before doing that, however, it

asks if you want to save them as files. Unfortunately, it

doesn't say where it puts them or what the new files are

called. Here's how to find them. Open Tools/Find/Files or

Folders and search the root directory for file*.CHK. Typically,

the files are named FILE0000.CHK, FILE0001.CHK, FILE0002.CHK and

so on. If you're looking to free up disk space, you can delete

any old files you find. If you suspect one of these files contains

critical data, open it in a text editor. If you see anything

that looks important, copy and paste into a new document for