It may be that your hard drive is failing. Try using the following
hard drive diagnostic tool.....works with any manufacturer's drive.
Data Lifeguard Online Diagnostics
http://websupport.wdc.com/diag/dlg_login.asp
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
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"Rick Chomiak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message:
news:022301c3d61f$79969db0$(E-Mail Removed)...
| I am getting the " A Disk Read Error Occured. Press
| CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart"
|
| My computer hadrware is only 4 months old. I have the
| following:
|
| ASUS A7N8X-X MB
| AMD XP 2500 Barton
| Maxtor 80G HDD 7200 ATA 133
| 512mb DDR 400
| 350W power supply
| Window XP Home Edition
|
| Two days ago I went to boot my computer then I got the
| above error. I tried repeatly to restart, each boot ended
| with the same disk read error. When I pressed F8 to go
| into SafeMode, nothing happened. So I booted from my Win
| XP disk and preformed a Repair. I was then able to start
| Windows and continue to use the computer. I scanned my
| computer with the latest updates from McAfee and found No
| Virus. I shut-down XP and tryied to boot again and Win XP
| loaded with no problem. I thought I fixed the disk read
| error with the repair until the next day when I tried to
| start my computer again. I was shocked to see that I got
| the same " A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL
| to restart" Error.
|
| So I completed another Windows XP Repair, but this time I
| ran a chkcsk twice, no errors were found. I checked my
| boot.ini and it was exactly as a default WinXP home
| edition boot.ini should be. I then ran the computor for 24
| hrs scheduling virus scan to run. The computer ran with no
| problems for 24 hrs. I then shut down Win XP and restarted
| immediately after and had no problems. So I thought I
| fixed the problem until the next day when I tried to start
| the computer. This time I got the Microsoft page stating
| that they were sorry for the inconvience but Windows was
| not able to start dur to ....please pick an
| option........Safe mode, start normally with last known
| configuration, etc. The Windows XP screen would pop up but
| the horizontal moving light would continue to go without
| loading Win XP. I then repeated to restart until I got the
| same " A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to
| restart" Error.
|
| Please help !!!!!!!!
|
| I do not know if I have a virus causing this or if my
| harddrive is damaged.
|
| Any information to fix this problem would be greatly
| appreciated and would be great value to all others out
| there.
|
|
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