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Rick Chomiak
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.
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.