SESSION1_Initialization_Failed

[KHerron]

Looking for any help with this. Dell Laptop just started doing this yesterday morning.
This is my business laptop and it has a lot of information I need to get back if possible.

I have removed my memory chips and tried booting with only one of them at a time to see if one is bad. No change.
I have made a bootable USB flash drive and tried the repair. No change.

When checking the hard drive I did see this:

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
Attribute record (80, $Bad) from file record segment 8
is corrupt.
  513024 file records processed.
File verification completed.
File record segment 3DFD8 is an orphan.
File record segment 3DFD9 is an orphan.
File record segment 3DFDA is an orphan.
File record segment 3DFDB is an orphan.
  15350 large file records processed.

Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in ready-only mode.
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.

 

[cwsink]

Hi KHerron,

Sorry for the delay but for some reason your post only appeared today for me; I'm not sure why. If you're still having the problem I'd suggest not trying to repair the file system until you've backed up anything important as your results could suggest a failing drive. I'd recommend treating it as a data recovery rather than repair at this point. I'd boot from a LiveCD or bootable Ubuntu trial media and copy what you can from your user folder(s) to an external drive first.

 

[KHerron]

@cwsink, thank you for your response. I belive I might have posted in the wrong area, but thought it could be the result of a bad update.

Anyhow, I have already purchased another laptop.
During the process, I also purchased an external 2.5 HDD case, and removed the hard drive from my old laptop and put it in the case.
After connecting to my new laptop, I was able to retrieve ALL my data from the hard drive, and have not seen any issues as of yet.

So I'm guessing the issue is with either some corrupt or bad records on the hard drive that only pertain to Windows 10, or mainly the boot process.
At this point, I no long plan to fix the old laptop as it has been slowly going for a while now. It's about 8 years old... Back when the I3 was top dog!
My may concern was being able to get to my data to retrieve it. And I was able to do that with the external case.

Once again, Thanks for the response.

 

[cwsink]

Thank you for the update and clarification, KHerron. I'm glad you were able to retrieve your data but I'd suggest coming up with and following a regular backup regimen to avoid relying on luck when a drive eventually fails. Personally, I use the built-in File History in Windows 10 for data and occasionally I'll do an image backup with the Windows 7 Backup program (also included in Windows 10.)