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So I boot up my old Dell with Windows ME OS and get:

THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPTED: C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPTED: C:\ WINDOWS\SYSTEMVMM32.VXD
TYPE THE NAME OF THE WINDOWS LOADER (E.G., C:\ WINDOWS\SYSTEMVMM32.VXD)

I come to the conclusion that I’m going to have to reformat the computer, BUT when I go to reinstall windows I get the following:

“SCANDISK ENCOUNTERED A DATA ERROR WHILE READING THE FAT ON DRIVE C.
THIS ERROR PREVENTS SCANDISK FROM FIXING THIS DRIVE”

And I can go no further. All I’m wanting to do is salvage some files on the hard drive, otherwise I could care less about the computer. What should/can I do to access my files!?
Any help or advice appreciated.
Thanks-
Steve R Jones
You could try slaving the drive in another pc.
Jack Lazara
try to reinstal OS
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