Any idea what could be wrong with my win xp when I try to boot up, after the
POST (a table showing all the resources allocation) a message appears
'A disk read error occured' Press Alt/Ctl/Del' to restart and when it
restarts, its back to the same situation. Has my Hdd gone bad?

"kchlim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:56487E2A-1A1A-45DB-97AA-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Any idea what could be wrong with my win xp when I try to boot up, after
the
> POST (a table showing all the resources allocation) a message appears
> 'A disk read error occured' Press Alt/Ctl/Del' to restart and when it
> restarts, its back to the same situation. Has my Hdd gone bad?

It depends. If this happened out of the blue then it's probably
a disk error. If you did some partition manipulation then this
might be an indication that your chosen geometry settings
(cylinders/heads/sectors) is not in agreement with the way the
data is stored on your disk.

A number of things.

I corrected this very thing twice this past week just by opening up the
box (with power disconnected) disconnecting and reconnecting the hard drive.

It's just a shot. It is also possible the drive has a problem.

www.FreeComputerConsultant.com

kchlim wrote:
> Any idea what could be wrong with my win xp when I try to boot up, after the
> POST (a table showing all the resources allocation) a message appears
> 'A disk read error occured' Press Alt/Ctl/Del' to restart and when it
> restarts, its back to the same situation. Has my Hdd gone bad?

I am now getting the same problem as this query. Given that I am not
technically very good, what do I have to do to fix this problem? I have tried
to run chkdsk but it keeps telling me the parameters are invalid.

HELP!

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "kchlim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:56487E2A-1A1A-45DB-97AA-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Any idea what could be wrong with my win xp when I try to boot up, after
> the
> > POST (a table showing all the resources allocation) a message appears
> > 'A disk read error occured' Press Alt/Ctl/Del' to restart and when it
> > restarts, its back to the same situation. Has my Hdd gone bad?
>
> It depends. If this happened out of the blue then it's probably
> a disk error. If you did some partition manipulation then this
> might be an indication that your chosen geometry settings
> (cylinders/heads/sectors) is not in agreement with the way the
> data is stored on your disk.
>
>
>

Do you have a disc in the "A" drive? If not, in any drive? You usually get
that message when the puter tries to boot up from something in it other than
the hard drive.

"billh35" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:19628285-E460-4143-B432-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am now getting the same problem as this query. Given that I am not
> technically very good, what do I have to do to fix this problem? I have
> tried
> to run chkdsk but it keeps telling me the parameters are invalid.
>
> HELP!
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
>>
>> "kchlim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:56487E2A-1A1A-45DB-97AA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Any idea what could be wrong with my win xp when I try to boot up,
>> > after
>> the
>> > POST (a table showing all the resources allocation) a message appears
>> > 'A disk read error occured' Press Alt/Ctl/Del' to restart and when it
>> > restarts, its back to the same situation. Has my Hdd gone bad?
>>
>> It depends. If this happened out of the blue then it's probably
>> a disk error. If you did some partition manipulation then this
>> might be an indication that your chosen geometry settings
>> (cylinders/heads/sectors) is not in agreement with the way the
>> data is stored on your disk.
>>
>>
>>

There is nothing in either the a: e: or f: drives and the system now refuses
to boot and when I try to boot from a Windows XP disc and try to repair the
installation it doesn't accept any of the CHKDSK parameters.

If I still run the CHKDSK command it tells me:

"The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems. "

It then returns to the C:\>

So now what do I do? The Microsoft website gives no clue!


"someone" wrote:

> Do you have a disc in the "A" drive? If not, in any drive? You usually get
> that message when the puter tries to boot up from something in it other than
> the hard drive.
>
> "billh35" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:19628285-E460-4143-B432-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I am now getting the same problem as this query. Given that I am not
> > technically very good, what do I have to do to fix this problem? I have
> > tried
> > to run chkdsk but it keeps telling me the parameters are invalid.
> >
> > HELP!
> >
> > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "kchlim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:56487E2A-1A1A-45DB-97AA-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> > Any idea what could be wrong with my win xp when I try to boot up,
> >> > after
> >> the
> >> > POST (a table showing all the resources allocation) a message appears
> >> > 'A disk read error occured' Press Alt/Ctl/Del' to restart and when it
> >> > restarts, its back to the same situation. Has my Hdd gone bad?
> >>
> >> It depends. If this happened out of the blue then it's probably
> >> a disk error. If you did some partition manipulation then this
> >> might be an indication that your chosen geometry settings
> >> (cylinders/heads/sectors) is not in agreement with the way the
> >> data is stored on your disk.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

"billh35" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1C7CAF40-FE12-489A-9BEB-(E-Mail Removed)...
> There is nothing in either the a: e: or f: drives and the system now
> refuses
> to boot and when I try to boot from a Windows XP disc and try to repair
> the
> installation it doesn't accept any of the CHKDSK parameters.
>
> If I still run the CHKDSK command it tells me:
>
> "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems. "
>
> It then returns to the C:\>
>
> So now what do I do? The Microsoft website gives no clue!
>
>
> "someone" wrote:
>
>> Do you have a disc in the "A" drive? If not, in any drive? You usually
>> get
>> that message when the puter tries to boot up from something in it other
>> than
>> the hard drive.
>>
>> "billh35" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:19628285-E460-4143-B432-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I am now getting the same problem as this query. Given that I am not
>> > technically very good, what do I have to do to fix this problem? I have
>> > tried
>> > to run chkdsk but it keeps telling me the parameters are invalid.
>> >
>> > HELP!
>> >
>> > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> "kchlim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> >> news:56487E2A-1A1A-45DB-97AA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> > Any idea what could be wrong with my win xp when I try to boot up,
>> >> > after
>> >> the
>> >> > POST (a table showing all the resources allocation) a message
>> >> > appears
>> >> > 'A disk read error occured' Press Alt/Ctl/Del' to restart and when
>> >> > it
>> >> > restarts, its back to the same situation. Has my Hdd gone bad?
>> >>
>> >> It depends. If this happened out of the blue then it's probably
>> >> a disk error. If you did some partition manipulation then this
>> >> might be an indication that your chosen geometry settings
>> >> (cylinders/heads/sectors) is not in agreement with the way the
>> >> data is stored on your disk.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
If I received such a message, I would replace the disk.
Jim

"billh35" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> There is nothing in either the a: e: or f: drives and the system now
> refuses
> to boot and when I try to boot from a Windows XP disc and try to repair
> the
> installation it doesn't accept any of the CHKDSK parameters.
>
> If I still run the CHKDSK command it tells me:
>
> "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems. "
>
> It then returns to the C:\>
>
> So now what do I do? The Microsoft website gives no clue!

Sounds like you might be in need of a new drive. Download drive diagnostic
utility from the hard drive manufacturer's web site. This will create a
bootable floppy or CD. Boot from that and run the diagnostics to see about
the health of the drive.

Hopefully you have a backup of important data.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]