Make sure your at C:\windows, if not, type cd windows first, then proceed with these commands, Type the following commands and hit enter after each: When you say Scandisk locks up, are you getting an error message as well? Does it freeze at the exact same spot?Īfter you clear out the CHK files, and before running Scandisk again clear out all the junk files too using DOS: that will show you how big the hard drive is and how much free space you really have. You might have several megabytes of them but not gigabytes, especially if that number is more than the size of the hard drive itself.ĭouble click on 'my computer', then right click on C:, and select 'properties'. As long as your computer is working fine and there are no hard drive problems where you might actually want to recover some data from them, then go ahead and delete them. While we have not verified the apps ourselves yet, our users have suggested 4 different CHK openers which you will find listed below.Yes, you can safely delete those CHK files, they are actually leftover remnants that SCANDISK deleted for you. Important: Different programs may use files with the CHK file extension for different purposes, so unless you are sure which format your CHK file is, you may need to try a few different programs. Often these files can be removed, as the information contained within them is also stored elsewhere on the user's computer. These errors are then written out as CHK files. The Windows operating system runs the ScanDisk and CHKDISK checking applications to find errors that may be located on the hard drive. These file fragments are fragments of files that have been cleaned from the hard drive by the ScanDisk or CHKDISK disk checking applications. chk file extension is also associated with Windows file fragments. Read more about the others further down the page. CHK files have multiple uses, and CHKDISK Fragment is one of them.
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