Scandisk lost file

[Confused]

Doing maintenance and when attempting to run Scandisk get msg. - Scandisk found 30,212,096 of data in one lost file fragment.

Gave me the options of;

- Discard lost file fragment and recover disk space

- Convert the lost file fragment into file

- Ignore and continue.

Having never encountered anything like this before, I wasn't sure (actually had no clue) what to do so I cancelled and closed scandisk.

What would be the best method to continue?
Thanks
Chas

[HAL9000]

Discard and recover space. When prompted to do an undo disk, don't bother.

[highrisemech]

I think that would be hard to say since you do not know what information is contained in this space, I would ignore or convert it to a file and that way it is saved then you can explore this file and see what file or files it contains.

[Confused]

Thanks for the replies, and while I kinda agree with highrisemech, after reading details I went with what Hal had to say and everything appears OK. Think I need to wipe this HD clean and start new when I get my new one up and stable. It's been running good for nearly two years, but in last few weeks getting weird things with files.
Chas

[HAL9000]

I have used scandisk once to recover a file. Back in the days when WordPerfect 5 was the big thing, my wife had not saved her document and the computer crashed right before the 10 minuted timed backup. We saved to a file with scandisk and she was able to recover a good portion of her text. Other than that, I find that it is quite useless to recover anything.