- Nov 23, 2015
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I have this 10 year old Dell Dimension 9100 that we hardly had been using for the last couple of years. Last July, we packed it up and moved to a new house. It as been sitting in the garage since that time because we have newer laptops that we are using.
This morning I opened up the Dell and cleaned out the dust and try to boot it up to get some files off the HDD before taking it to the recycling center. When I turned it on, it went through CHKDSK and deleted/fixed a bunch of sectors. Then it rebooted and went into CHKDSK again, then restarted, then CHKDSK again, etc. It went through the cycle a few times but nothing was fixed after the first time. I shut it off and went to work.
Is there a way to get out of this mode?
How can I recover the files from the two HDDs? (was planning to move what I needed to flash drive)
This morning I opened up the Dell and cleaned out the dust and try to boot it up to get some files off the HDD before taking it to the recycling center. When I turned it on, it went through CHKDSK and deleted/fixed a bunch of sectors. Then it rebooted and went into CHKDSK again, then restarted, then CHKDSK again, etc. It went through the cycle a few times but nothing was fixed after the first time. I shut it off and went to work.
Is there a way to get out of this mode?
How can I recover the files from the two HDDs? (was planning to move what I needed to flash drive)
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