"File or directory is corrupted and unreadable"

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Hi I ran the chkdsk command and it finished.
But now the file that was corrupted has gone?? It has been replaced by a 'file' with 0kb?
Can you plee advise what to do?

Thanks

This is the log:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10240]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Daniel>chkdsk /f f:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Perseus.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
Deleted unreadable attribute list for file 31459.
197632 file records processed.
File verification completed.
137 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
Fixing incorrect information in file record segment 31459.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 31459.
219014 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is scanning unindexed files for reconnect to their original directory.
113 unindexed files scanned.
0 unindexed files recovered to original directory.
CHKDSK is recovering remaining unindexed files.
113 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
Lost and found is located at \found.001


Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Inserting data attribute into file 31459.
10692 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.
No further action is required.

1953478655 KB total disk space.
1851755148 KB in 156408 files.
59228 KB in 10694 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
323387 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
101340892 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
488369663 total allocation units on disk.
25335223 allocation units available on disk.

C:\Users\Daniel>

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Is there anything here that shows where the files went?

Thanks for any help you can offer ;)

Dan

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my hard disk showing the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable in xp
i have two intel hard disk 1-500gb 2-220g

I ran the chkdsk command and it finished.
But now the file that was corrupted has gone

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