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

[ETdoFresh]

This has been my experience before I got this working.

So, I got the infamous error everyone seemed to be getting:

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

I'm not going to bore you, and tell you how I probably got here. But I
knew one thing: I didn't want to lose my data on my drive!

I've tried the following (and didn't work), but these are still
strongly recommended if you are having this problem:
- Reset your BIOS to Default Settings
- Put in an 2K/XP/2K3 CD and enter recovery mode and run the
following:
- FIXMBR
- FIXBOOT
- CHKDSK /R /P

Now, X hours of my weekend of free time, and still no luck. But I was
determined, and this was the answer to my problem...

BIOS! My Hard Drive was set to Auto Detect. I can however,set my hard
drive to different modes. It was on Auto, so I changed it to LBA. I
restarted my computer, and BAM! It continued to load passed the BIOS.
I restarted a few times (just to check) and I was rolling! So
hopefully, this will help about 1% of the people who have this
problem. Good luck to y'all!

 

[V Green]

This has been my experience before I got this working.

So, I got the infamous error everyone seemed to be getting:

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

I'm not going to bore you, and tell you how I probably got here. But I
knew one thing: I didn't want to lose my data on my drive!

I've tried the following (and didn't work), but these are still
strongly recommended if you are having this problem:
- Reset your BIOS to Default Settings
- Put in an 2K/XP/2K3 CD and enter recovery mode and run the
following:
- FIXMBR
- FIXBOOT
- CHKDSK /R /P

Now, X hours of my weekend of free time, and still no luck. But I was
determined, and this was the answer to my problem...

BIOS! My Hard Drive was set to Auto Detect. I can however,set my hard
drive to different modes. It was on Auto, so I changed it to LBA. I
restarted my computer, and BAM! It continued to load passed the BIOS.
I restarted a few times (just to check) and I was rolling! So
hopefully, this will help about 1% of the people who have this
problem. Good luck to y'all!

Might want to change your CMOS battery.
That setting shouldn't have changed by itself...

 

[Rock]

This has been my experience before I got this working.

So, I got the infamous error everyone seemed to be getting:

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

I'm not going to bore you, and tell you how I probably got here. But I
knew one thing: I didn't want to lose my data on my drive!

I've tried the following (and didn't work), but these are still
strongly recommended if you are having this problem:
- Reset your BIOS to Default Settings
- Put in an 2K/XP/2K3 CD and enter recovery mode and run the
following:
- FIXMBR
- FIXBOOT
- CHKDSK /R /P

Now, X hours of my weekend of free time, and still no luck. But I was
determined, and this was the answer to my problem...

BIOS! My Hard Drive was set to Auto Detect. I can however,set my hard
drive to different modes. It was on Auto, so I changed it to LBA. I
restarted my computer, and BAM! It continued to load passed the BIOS.
I restarted a few times (just to check) and I was rolling! So
hopefully, this will help about 1% of the people who have this
problem. Good luck to y'all!

One other thing to consider. Never run chkdsk on a volume unless there is a
full and complete backup. Chkdsk can cause data loss. The first step
should be to backup the data. If the drive won't boot there are several
options among which:
1. Install as a slave drive in another XP or Win2k computer and copy the
data
2. Boot with a Bart PE disk and copy the data to USB drive or flash drive
3. Download / create a bootable Knoppix Linux CD. Boot from that, and copy
the data to USB drive or flash drive, and if the computer as two CD drives
one of which is a burner you can use the k3b burning program on the Knoppix
CD to burn the data to CD.

 

[dobey]

One other thing to consider. Never run chkdsk on a volume unless there is
a full and complete backup. Chkdsk can cause data loss. The first step
should be to backup the data. If the drive won't boot there are several
options among which:
1. Install as a slave drive in another XP or Win2k computer and copy the
data
2. Boot with a Bart PE disk and copy the data to USB drive or flash drive
3. Download / create a bootable Knoppix Linux CD. Boot from that, and
copy the data to USB drive or flash drive, and if the computer as two CD
drives one of which is a burner you can use the k3b burning program on the
Knoppix CD to burn the data to CD.

Yeah, knoppix is very impressive.

Within a few minutes you have a functioning PC with you LAN and everything
working without having to write anything to the HDD.

 

[Guest]

E.T - Thanks for sharingy our solution. I experienced the same problem a
couple of days ago but in my case I need to change the hd.

 

[BenBuck80]

This has been my experience before I got this working.

So, I got the infamouserroreveryone seemed to be getting:

Adiskreaderroroccurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

I'm not going to bore you, and tell you how I probably got here. But I
knew one thing: I didn't want to lose my data on my drive!

I've tried the following (and didn't work), but these are still
strongly recommended if you are having this problem:
- Reset your BIOS to Default Settings
- Put in an 2K/XP/2K3 CD and enter recovery mode and run the
following:
- FIXMBR
- FIXBOOT
- CHKDSK /R /P

Now, X hours of my weekend of free time, and still no luck. But I was
determined, and this was the answer to my problem...

BIOS! My Hard Drive was set to Auto Detect. I can however,set my hard
drive to different modes. It was on Auto, so I changed it to LBA. I
restarted my computer, and BAM! It continued to load passed the BIOS.
I restarted a few times (just to check) and I was rolling! So
hopefully, this will help about 1% of the people who have this
problem. Good luck to y'all!

Thank you Thank you!! This worked like a charm on the HP D530 in my
office. I had used Norton Ghost to backup a drive that was failing,
and it would not boot from the new drive. I believe this is an issue
that HPs were susceptible to. This article https://
adelie.ucs.ed.ac.uk/dstwiki/index.php/BootProblems
has a good listing of ways to fix an XP machine that wont boot, and it
listed the LBA method as well.