"A disk read error occurred"

[DKahler]

Running Windows Xp home edition SP2


About 5 or 6months ago I put my computer together with the help of
friend. All parts were new. So everything was working fine until I ge
this one day.

I get this error after I did the following:

-I was surfing the net Bills/mail and so on
- Decided to run Disk Defrag (I run that once or twice a week)
- After I was finish with that, I restarted my computer, accidentl
pushed log off, so I canceled that and went to start>shutdown>restar
again. (just giving details on what i was exactly doing)


Now when it restarts...does the normal loading, until it hits Certai
part of the loading

Says " A disk read error occurred"
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

So I did...samething happened. Over and over.

Not sure if its windows xp or I'm guessing the disk read error is m
hard drive?

I'm pretty much lost. Everything is basically new. Using my notebook a
the moment. Thanks in advance for any of the help.

If you need more information...please reply THANK YOU

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You're guessing correctly, it's the hard drive. It may have failed. The best
thing to do is download and run a drive diagnostic utility from the web site
of the drive manufacturer. These free utilities run from a bootable flopply
and the test will tell you the state of the drive.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[jazz]

try maing sure that you don't have any cd's or floppy disks in the computer
then boot as normal. I'm going to guess that the a portion of the a disk
error actually means it is trying to boot to somethign other then the c
drive. Cdroms that are bootable sometimes assign a drive letter a to them so
it could be a bootable cd also.