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I have an old Dell Latitude E6400 lying around, (80 G HDD, 2 G RAM, I think, Win 7 pro 32 bit) and I was trying to see if I could bring it back to life, so I powered it on and it stated running system diagnostics. Everything was fine with that. Then I tried to boot it but I didn't get past the logo, instead I got the BSOD and a warning about something being wrong with my hard drive. It said try restarting it, and I did but the same thing happened. It said "run CHKDSK /F" but since I can't get into the OS, I can't do that. Then I went into the BIOS to see if I could do anything like run CHKDSK /F or wipe the hard drive, but no. I tried to find a way to bypass the BSOD, and there was something about using safe mode with command prompt, but I still got the BSOD. After searching online a little more, I found this saying to press F8 and select "Repair your computer" so I did that, and It's been 2 hours and nothing has happened. I have a cursor that I can move around, and the welcome screen with nothing on it (see picture below, but imagine it's completely blank otherwise). I read on some other posts and other support forums that this can take a while, but here's the thing: I don't have an installation disk or flash drive or a system repair disk or flash drive. Basically all of the other posts involve an installation/repair disk/drive. Is this computer gone forever, or is there some solution? Do I just need to wait? I don't have any important files on it, so it's not high stakes, I just figured that it would be better than junking the whole thing.
If I ran a permanent magnet over it, would that wipe the hard drive and allow me to restart, or corrupt it beyond all future use?
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If I ran a permanent magnet over it, would that wipe the hard drive and allow me to restart, or corrupt it beyond all future use?
Continue reading...