CHeckDisk deleted vmdk files from my disk after a stopped scan. What can I do to recover they?

[Dragonfighter]

After a scan of CheckDisk that I accidentally stop on Windows 10 Home my portable Western Digital 2 TB show me the .vmdks files but with a dimension of 0 KB. The disk wasn't used further. How can I recover that files if is it possible? Thanks for any reply.

 

[Jared]

The first place to check is in the folder labeled Found.000 in the root of the hard drive. It's likely in there as a nameless cnk file. Hopefully, it wasn't fragmented and just be renamed back to a VMDK file. See if any of those files in there look about the right size.

 

[lcoughey]

I'd first start by getting a backup clone of the drive.

 

[Dragonfighter]

I already did a clone of the drive, but the Found.000 folder there isn't.

 

[Dragonfighter]

Now I found, using Deft Zero, the folder found.001/dir0000.chk/ that contains some files but no the ones I need, found.001/dir0001.chk/ is empty and found.000/dir_00000001.chk/ also is empty. Before the CheckDisk I copied from a Windows 7 some files but when I connected the WD to a Windows 10 on a ASUS N53S emulated(it's a fast 2.0 USB) 3.0 USB port the files and folder wasn't on the disk. After that I tried to delete a folder, that process blocked the PC so I decided to shut down using the power button. After I start the PC it asked my to run a Checkdisk so I runned it and the CheckDisk scan get stuck so I stopped it.