Sorry Ben, no one likes bad news but your hard drive is showing all the
classic signs of failure.
Chkdsk makes temp files of fragments in the drive root folder, if that does
any good. It's where the extra space went.

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"Ben_Radiophonic" <Ben_Radiophonic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Hi,
> I was unable to acess my computer, even through safe mode.
> I ran the CHKDSK -R from the original XP installation CD
> When that had finished, I went to My Documents and all the files in there
> were gone. Also the only Hard Drive had lost 120GB space with all the
> files
> remaining the same. I really need my work back.
> I'm trying Recover My Files but it seems hopeless at the moment
>
> Any help appriciated,
> Ben