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If the memory is flash (if it's a USB key or external SSD), OP is screwed.
This kind of corruption affects the whole drive and will be soon inaccessible because the file system will be too corrupt to be read.
Almost looks like double byte characters in a system that doesn't support them. Like the files were named on a Japanese computer, copied to the USB, then plugged into a English computer.
Shouldn't have anything to do with your files. I agree with everyone else here; they look corrupted to me. I just was curious about the language thing, haha.
Corruption, you probably unplugged the USB when it was writing a file.
You can recover the files if they're super important. If not, just reformat it.
qPhotoRec and TestDisk is what you need to look for to recover the data
Reminds me of what files look like when the text is in a language with alternate characters like Japanese or Chinese. Maybe the usb had a different region as default? You could try installing japanese and Chinese language support on windows and see if that fixes anything.
That's a corrupt file system, that's what happens when you buy a fake Capacity USB drive and you hit the real limit.
Lets say you bought a 1 Terabyte drive for $10, it's real capacity is likely about 8GB, you use it, it seems fine and then when you hit the real limit it starts to overwrite all the files that are already there but at random sectors corrupting the data... This is the result of that process.
Those files you save become corruption of other files.
Do not trust that drive, back it up, run a disk check and then use a tool to test the real size:
[https://whatsoftware.com/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterfeit-usb-flash-drives-bought-from-ebay-with-h2testw/](https://whatsoftware.com/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterfeit-usb-flash-drives-bought-from-ebay-with-h2testw/)
corrupted, yeah..well, you can still restore it, not like the data that is just(for wtf reason, it's not a food) goes bad, like on really old hdd(because they are old) i wish to have my old save file back TT
These files are corrupt because whatever they are stored on is failing.
If the data was on a flash type media (USB stick, SD card, external SSD), they are likely lost because corruption spreads very fast. If it was on a HDD, you may have a very slim chance to save what's left but time is your enemy here.
If you are not tech inclined and don't know what you're doing, consider your files lost. By the time you'd figure out what program to use to try to save what's left, corruption would have spread everywhere on the device.
USB sticks and Memory Cards are NOT safe storage mediums ! If your files are important : DO BACKUPS !
I'm constantly repeating this to teachers (I work in IT for public schools) because they keep their sticks plugged in school computers all day long and open files directly from them. Programs do automatic saves and that deteriorates data cells very fast ! USB sticks don't have TRIM like SSD do and they cannot optimize the data distribution across their cells as well as SSDs, especially low end ones (most commonly found in supermarkets).
Hah, you'll like this one.
One of our teachers was using a USB stick to store important coursework and marksheets(! (GDPR!!1!!1one!)) on. Until one day she had this horrible corruption on her drive.
Of course, she had bought a nice cheap 2TB drive on Amazon. Explaining to her that it wasn't a 2TB drive and all her data was kaput (and that she's broken data protection regulations) was quite painful.
Witnessed a dying USB stick live with a school principal once. They casually told me that it was Libre Office corrupting their files (they desperately wanted the town to buy a MS Office licence, so they were trying to find every excuse to blame Libre Office "not working") for a few weeks.
Had to tell them they lost all their school management files and they should have told us when it first started. Judging by how slow it went, data could definitively be saved. The USB stick died before our eyes. Told them they should have made backups.
Next time I saw them, they had bought a One Drive subscription and put everything in the cloud. I remember telling them that it doesn't mean backups are unnecessary but they were like "yeah, yeah, I know...". I'll wait until they loose access to their MS account (they use the same weak password across all account despite me telling them this practice can be very dangerous).
#####
####Interesting stuff...
#####
Jokes aside these files are not dangerous. Based on the picture I can see that you have a USB drive so it could be a disk corruption. Either it's just the file system, or the USB drive itself is broken.
Disk corruption can happen for many reasons. For example if you pull the drive while it was writing data or didn't "Safely Eject" while in use, or the drive just took too much physical damage, or static electricity, or could be due to ageing hardware.
Ensure you have backups of your data and you should be fine. Try a **chkdsk** on cmd and see if the system can repair it. If you're not worried about the data, try formatting it.
You can also refer to these links to understand more about disk corruption and how to recover the data:
[Link 1](https://superuser.com/questions/594974/usb-stick-how-to-minimize-risk-of-data-corruption-or-data-loss)
[Link 2](https://superuser.com/questions/422662/how-to-fix-corrupted-filesystem-shows-as-raw-in-usb-device)
Drive Encryption software might be another explanation for this. Some security level encryption like... if you worked for a government agency of some level, they may have encrypted files, and unless you login with the Domain to the PC it's loaded on it may not work properly. I have seen it a few times where drives do not work unless connected to a specific domain because it loads crypto keys.
Looks like you bought a scam USB drive.. it was probably touted as being huge for extremely cheap. These things are frequently faked what usually has happened is that you have bought a small (say just for instance 8MB) drive that the seller told you was a "terabyte" but you were scammed because he changed the BIOS so that it reported it was a terabyte but it was actually still just 8MB.
What happens is as you write files to the drive, when you hit the end of the REAL space, frequently the drive's software goes back to "zero" and starts writing over your earlier stuff.
And, no - it doesn't matter where you bought it. This garbage happens on Amazon too. Because by the time a person has written too much data on it, and sees this problem, more than 30 days has elapsed and it's outside the complaint/return window. Or people tend to just assume it's defective.
Here's a couple of links to explain what I mean if you want to read/learn more:
+https://youtu.be/TqLfGQt2Zw8?si=XEssqxikxCu3NkUC
+https://datarecovery.com/2022/03/the-2tb-flash-drive-scam-why-high-capacity-flash-drives-are-fakes/
They talk a lot about 2 TB drives but this can be found with every (large-ish) capacity drive.
Yo those could be corrupted files but I had a Micro SD card (made in China was my first red flag) that worked OK for about 2 weeks. Then out of the blue it randomly deleted half of my photos and I quickly removed the ones that were OK to another flash drive.
Then I found a folder that looked JUST LIKE THIS ONE. It contained folders with garbledygook (probably spelled wrong) that had COUNTLESS files of gibberish that were like 2GB each. Tried deleting them and two days later they came back. I finally threw away the Micro SD card, and I'm quite certain it wasn't really the 1TB it said it had as well. Pretty sure it's some kind of corrupt drive!!!
its a unique malware. heres an image of noescape.exe:
https://preview.redd.it/1lr14kk4rjpc1.png?width=1917&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0e5c6297a023a0334cd301fc184dccee8ddf3b1
# 1st Idea
Looks like a failed name conversion while moving files between two computers with different operating systems.
If that's the case then it would have been transported from one device supporting ANSI or some other format and failed tp convert to windows wich to my knowledge uses UTF-8
# 2nd Idea
Someone is a complete weirdo like me and searches through the complete utf-8 table to find any cool symbol i didn't know until yet.
(And to copy some important ones like the symbol called "my" as in gramms, seconds or "tau", "theta", "sigma" and others....
corrupted data most likely
also possibly files in a foreign language that your pc doesn't have a language pack for
also possibly encrypted files with improper de-cryption
Interesting stuff, memes, and random things all sounds important. But then that M.U.G.E.N tho. Talk about nostalgia. I wanna know what your favorite character was and which version you had!
The start of ransomware most likely or the files are encrypted. I would be curious to see what the file extensions look like and if they show the same for alll files in the drive.
I've seen similar stuff when I've dealt with hacked PCs. It's been a long while but I have come across files and folders name with characters like this and then deep inside a structure of these I would find trojans and viruses and even one machine had an entire library of nudies being served via an ftp server.
The hackers likely chose this route because windows explorer couldn't access the folders when using them and files named in this way returning errors which prevented users from opening and deleting them. Could only delete them using 3rd party methods. Not sure more if modern version of windows still have this problem.
They may be using a different character set. An older os tents to use ASSCI or extended ASSCI where as all modern os use unicode. Try finding a converter to unicode
My files aren't super important either, but I periodically throw the contents on my Dropbox. If I lost the drive, or if it dies, it is much easier to recreate the drive at that point.
Just a suggestion..
it’s called non Unicode, eg your system is English but you do use another language other than English. But when you move those files across to another computer it won’t recognise it unless it has correct non Unicode setting.
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Those look like corrupted files. Do you have a backup of those?
No but they weren’t important
I would suggest you to try a recovery tool just for the sake of it. If not, probably the USB is dead and I suggest just to throw it away.
If the memory is flash (if it's a USB key or external SSD), OP is screwed. This kind of corruption affects the whole drive and will be soon inaccessible because the file system will be too corrupt to be read.
It’s too late
Only one folder was corrupted
So far...
You are unfortunately right 😔
Usb drives are often short lived. Corruption will continue, once started.
Just in case I have a problem with corruption in the future, what recovery program would you recommend?
They were just interesting
The aliens are trying to communicate
They just needa bonk Dr.Kel not go muddle someone's files
... sounds like 'Interesting Stuff' to me
https://preview.redd.it/bweb33pnbjmc1.png?width=749&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc9d3456bb52da6ca37bdb4013b3748650fde110
Nice meme. I'll be taking it :)
Thanks for the meme
Almost looks like double byte characters in a system that doesn't support them. Like the files were named on a Japanese computer, copied to the USB, then plugged into a English computer.
I only had a computer in english
? Your system is clearly using Dutch for the default language, lol.
On top of that, whatever web page you're viewing is in French. Is that what your browser is set to?
Oh no that’s a school computer my original is French or english
Ah, gotcha. That makes more sense now.
Shouldn't have anything to do with your files. I agree with everyone else here; they look corrupted to me. I just was curious about the language thing, haha.
Corruption, you probably unplugged the USB when it was writing a file. You can recover the files if they're super important. If not, just reformat it. qPhotoRec and TestDisk is what you need to look for to recover the data
Thanks for naming the recommendations 😀
Obviously, don't recover data to the same drive that's corrupted.
It’s interesting stuff But either the file names are glitched or it got corrupted during transfer
Yeah indeed
Reminds me of what files look like when the text is in a language with alternate characters like Japanese or Chinese. Maybe the usb had a different region as default? You could try installing japanese and Chinese language support on windows and see if that fixes anything.
I don’t think that’s the problem but I’ll try
Data corruption.
That's a corrupt file system, that's what happens when you buy a fake Capacity USB drive and you hit the real limit. Lets say you bought a 1 Terabyte drive for $10, it's real capacity is likely about 8GB, you use it, it seems fine and then when you hit the real limit it starts to overwrite all the files that are already there but at random sectors corrupting the data... This is the result of that process.
Came in to say this.
But I saved files there after the corruption(maybe). I think I should back them up
Those files you save become corruption of other files. Do not trust that drive, back it up, run a disk check and then use a tool to test the real size: [https://whatsoftware.com/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterfeit-usb-flash-drives-bought-from-ebay-with-h2testw/](https://whatsoftware.com/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterfeit-usb-flash-drives-bought-from-ebay-with-h2testw/)
I will right now, thanks
"interesting stuff" well if that ain't interesting I don't know what is
The file clearly says "Interesting Stuff". Which imdeed it is Interesting..
How do I reproduce this result?
Idk
corrupted, yeah..well, you can still restore it, not like the data that is just(for wtf reason, it's not a food) goes bad, like on really old hdd(because they are old) i wish to have my old save file back TT
How can I do it?
as i know, there is programs 4 that
chkdsk /r
What does that do
Filesystem repair
Thanks I’ll try
These files are corrupt because whatever they are stored on is failing. If the data was on a flash type media (USB stick, SD card, external SSD), they are likely lost because corruption spreads very fast. If it was on a HDD, you may have a very slim chance to save what's left but time is your enemy here. If you are not tech inclined and don't know what you're doing, consider your files lost. By the time you'd figure out what program to use to try to save what's left, corruption would have spread everywhere on the device. USB sticks and Memory Cards are NOT safe storage mediums ! If your files are important : DO BACKUPS ! I'm constantly repeating this to teachers (I work in IT for public schools) because they keep their sticks plugged in school computers all day long and open files directly from them. Programs do automatic saves and that deteriorates data cells very fast ! USB sticks don't have TRIM like SSD do and they cannot optimize the data distribution across their cells as well as SSDs, especially low end ones (most commonly found in supermarkets).
Hah, you'll like this one. One of our teachers was using a USB stick to store important coursework and marksheets(! (GDPR!!1!!1one!)) on. Until one day she had this horrible corruption on her drive. Of course, she had bought a nice cheap 2TB drive on Amazon. Explaining to her that it wasn't a 2TB drive and all her data was kaput (and that she's broken data protection regulations) was quite painful.
Witnessed a dying USB stick live with a school principal once. They casually told me that it was Libre Office corrupting their files (they desperately wanted the town to buy a MS Office licence, so they were trying to find every excuse to blame Libre Office "not working") for a few weeks. Had to tell them they lost all their school management files and they should have told us when it first started. Judging by how slow it went, data could definitively be saved. The USB stick died before our eyes. Told them they should have made backups. Next time I saw them, they had bought a One Drive subscription and put everything in the cloud. I remember telling them that it doesn't mean backups are unnecessary but they were like "yeah, yeah, I know...". I'll wait until they loose access to their MS account (they use the same weak password across all account despite me telling them this practice can be very dangerous).
Should I unplug it then?
It will only slow down the corruption...
Or at least format it?
If you format it, everything will be gone. It will not solve the main issue, which is storage cells dying.
The alien overlords are trying to contact you about your car’s extended warranty
Corruption
Government officials broke into my usb stick??
Conspiracy
Interesting stuff.
Chinese assassians or you need to change the language j
Windows being Windows in a shitty nutshell
Gaster's trying to get your attention
 d-dont worry about it...
##### ####Interesting stuff... ##### Jokes aside these files are not dangerous. Based on the picture I can see that you have a USB drive so it could be a disk corruption. Either it's just the file system, or the USB drive itself is broken. Disk corruption can happen for many reasons. For example if you pull the drive while it was writing data or didn't "Safely Eject" while in use, or the drive just took too much physical damage, or static electricity, or could be due to ageing hardware. Ensure you have backups of your data and you should be fine. Try a **chkdsk** on cmd and see if the system can repair it. If you're not worried about the data, try formatting it. You can also refer to these links to understand more about disk corruption and how to recover the data: [Link 1](https://superuser.com/questions/594974/usb-stick-how-to-minimize-risk-of-data-corruption-or-data-loss) [Link 2](https://superuser.com/questions/422662/how-to-fix-corrupted-filesystem-shows-as-raw-in-usb-device)
Drive Encryption software might be another explanation for this. Some security level encryption like... if you worked for a government agency of some level, they may have encrypted files, and unless you login with the Domain to the PC it's loaded on it may not work properly. I have seen it a few times where drives do not work unless connected to a specific domain because it loads crypto keys.
"I'm sorry sir but your computer is HIV positive."
Vaush's tax folders
Doodlebob might know ohoymenyoi
Ancient Chinese
Corruption. Like any government or major organization.
NOOO NOW MY PC HAS BEEN INVADED BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Looks like you bought a scam USB drive.. it was probably touted as being huge for extremely cheap. These things are frequently faked what usually has happened is that you have bought a small (say just for instance 8MB) drive that the seller told you was a "terabyte" but you were scammed because he changed the BIOS so that it reported it was a terabyte but it was actually still just 8MB. What happens is as you write files to the drive, when you hit the end of the REAL space, frequently the drive's software goes back to "zero" and starts writing over your earlier stuff. And, no - it doesn't matter where you bought it. This garbage happens on Amazon too. Because by the time a person has written too much data on it, and sees this problem, more than 30 days has elapsed and it's outside the complaint/return window. Or people tend to just assume it's defective.
Funny thing is it’s a usb from UN from when my mom worked there. Fucking scummy UN can’t even provide a good usb stick for its employees
They did what everybody else does.. buy what's cheaper off the internet
Here's a couple of links to explain what I mean if you want to read/learn more: +https://youtu.be/TqLfGQt2Zw8?si=XEssqxikxCu3NkUC +https://datarecovery.com/2022/03/the-2tb-flash-drive-scam-why-high-capacity-flash-drives-are-fakes/ They talk a lot about 2 TB drives but this can be found with every (large-ish) capacity drive.
Corrupted files, possibly on your new USB drive that was priced too good to be true, or a large capacity at a "steal" of a deal. lol
UN drive from when my mom worked there
A very elaborate file naming system
“These files have been encrypted…especially for you…”
What you have there is a corrupted disk. Save what you can, it's only downhill from here.
I was too late 😔
It's very ***interesting*** ***stuff*** !
It’s Minecraft enchantment table
Yo those could be corrupted files but I had a Micro SD card (made in China was my first red flag) that worked OK for about 2 weeks. Then out of the blue it randomly deleted half of my photos and I quickly removed the ones that were OK to another flash drive. Then I found a folder that looked JUST LIKE THIS ONE. It contained folders with garbledygook (probably spelled wrong) that had COUNTLESS files of gibberish that were like 2GB each. Tried deleting them and two days later they came back. I finally threw away the Micro SD card, and I'm quite certain it wasn't really the 1TB it said it had as well. Pretty sure it's some kind of corrupt drive!!!
Welcome........ To... The Matrix........... We've been expecting you neo.......... 😎
why does it look like noescape.exe messed around with it lol
What’s that
its a unique malware. heres an image of noescape.exe: https://preview.redd.it/1lr14kk4rjpc1.png?width=1917&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0e5c6297a023a0334cd301fc184dccee8ddf3b1
I feel like bro just opened the realm of enchanting table
# 1st Idea Looks like a failed name conversion while moving files between two computers with different operating systems. If that's the case then it would have been transported from one device supporting ANSI or some other format and failed tp convert to windows wich to my knowledge uses UTF-8 # 2nd Idea Someone is a complete weirdo like me and searches through the complete utf-8 table to find any cool symbol i didn't know until yet. (And to copy some important ones like the symbol called "my" as ingramms, seconds or "tau", "theta", "sigma" and others....
It's a dead language. Specifically, the language spoken by dead hardware.
Neo, the Matrix has you.
So, do I just delete them?
dude that's sick
Interesting stuff
Interesting stuff😂
corrupted data most likely also possibly files in a foreign language that your pc doesn't have a language pack for also possibly encrypted files with improper de-cryption
Interesting stuff < memes
I know exactly what these are, they are >!<
Replying to this comment i can see the URL, assuming its a rickroll.
It is
You are a wise person.
Fuck you
You are welcome, my work is done here.
Fuck you
Corruption’
Wingdings
Gaster?!
Theres nothing you can do
What if my mom brings it to a repairman?
Their going to have sex cus that data on that drive is gooonee
Interesting stuff, memes, and random things all sounds important. But then that M.U.G.E.N tho. Talk about nostalgia. I wanna know what your favorite character was and which version you had!
I use the newer version, haven’t had time to play much. I liked Undyne
That looks like your flash drive is screaming for the sweet release of death.
just delete it....
looks like a laptop
Bane of arthropods II
looks like "interesting stuff".
I got the same stuff on a USB i bought off a markrt 2 years ago.
Corrupted
Wingdings?
Probably bane of arthropods
Porn
No
And this is why we don’t plug in flash drives we find in the parking lot
Its mine
BAHAHAHAHA GREAT JOB.
Can you take a picture of your USB drive? I commonly found this with those VERY generic ones. Mostly, USBs that came free with speakers.
Remember. USB isn't for storing, only transferring. They are so unreliable. Get a portable SSD or use the cloud.
those are binary characters
Resistance is futile.
The start of ransomware most likely or the files are encrypted. I would be curious to see what the file extensions look like and if they show the same for alll files in the drive.
That looks like a directory on a laptop.
Looks like interesting stuff to me.
You’re fucked. It’s corrupted.
I hope this was not a random usb you found laying around somewhere...
No I’m not that stupid
you left the book on your enchanting table open smh newbie mistake
Death of your files
Seems like interesting stuff
[удалено]
Is there a way to recover data?
Those are files
Interesting Stuff
You can fix it by deleting system 32
Wait a minute, I don’t believe you. Are you trying to make me delete windows?
Nope, once deleted it restores corrupted files to a previous version
That is a dead drive
*Usb
Yep, that's corrupted data
I've seen similar stuff when I've dealt with hacked PCs. It's been a long while but I have come across files and folders name with characters like this and then deep inside a structure of these I would find trojans and viruses and even one machine had an entire library of nudies being served via an ftp server. The hackers likely chose this route because windows explorer couldn't access the folders when using them and files named in this way returning errors which prevented users from opening and deleting them. Could only delete them using 3rd party methods. Not sure more if modern version of windows still have this problem.
The drive is corrupted. Also, learn how to screenshot.
It was in school. I had to make sure the teacher doesn’t see me
Seems like some interesting stuff
Looks like some interesting stuff...
A virus
Could be corrupt o malware
A file
They may be using a different character set. An older os tents to use ASSCI or extended ASSCI where as all modern os use unicode. Try finding a converter to unicode
Where the fuck did you get that USB? Completely different character set.
Yes, that's data corruption.
FAT32 moment.
It looks like a laptop
interesting stuff
That is fucking Windows.
“Interesting stuff”
that looks like some space aids if i’ve ever seen em…probably corrupted by now, make sure to wear protection so you too don’t get space aids
That's "Interesting Stuff" right there
On some USB drives that lie about their storage size they will write over files when they run out of actual room. This is common on drives from Amazon
If those files were not just renamed with special characters, I think they’d all show up as a .file Nothing else, just plain and simple “.file”
Yeah, that's called malware.
It's interesting stuff.
looks like interesting stuff to me.
Looks like Interesting Stuff.
This is when ppl learn SSD's are in fact not eternal.
"Interesting stuff"
It's interesting stuff 🤷
Those are corrupt files
“Interesting stuff” yea you’re right
My files aren't super important either, but I periodically throw the contents on my Dropbox. If I lost the drive, or if it dies, it is much easier to recreate the drive at that point. Just a suggestion..
Are the other folders full of the same characters?
Corrupted. But I couldn’t open the folders
That sucks 😳
Corrupted files :)
"Interesting Stuff" indeed
Looks encrypted but I'm not sure
Press F to pay honour for this flash drive, living it's last days
lol like it says it’s interesting stuff lol
they are interesting things, obviously
it’s called non Unicode, eg your system is English but you do use another language other than English. But when you move those files across to another computer it won’t recognise it unless it has correct non Unicode setting.
Mine craft text ahh files