Hi All,

I have managed to recovery some Word/Excel files form a failing flash drive. some are OK but the others are corrupt. In the recovery software I am using (Easy Recovery Pro) it states they are cross linked and deleted. I understand cross linked to be along the lines of two files occupying the same cluster (correct me if I am wrong). I was wondering if there is a way to salvage these files from being cross linked. I have done a bit of research and chkdsk /r hasn't worked.

Yes linked cross means allocation table, point to same cluster by another file

file 001---> cluster start 620
file 350---> cluster start 620

used, its possible to solve it but u need to edit manually the entries, and of course knowledgment about the File system structure

Regards

If two files, fileA & fileB, are crosslinked, then make copies of both files and examine them. One will definitely be corrupt, whereas the other will probably be OK.