A disk read error occurred

[Wolfie301]

My computer will not boot and comes up with the error "A disk read error
occurred.
I researched that it may just be as simple as fixing the MBR by booting from
the CD
but when i changed the boot sequence in the bios for CD it again fails to
load. How can i fix this hard drive? Is it possible to fix the partitions by
USB Floppy disk, if so how.
Thanks for any assistance

 

[Gerry]

Wolfie

Please post a copy of the Error Report from Event Viewer.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.


--



Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Wolfie301]

The computer will not load the O/S so i can not get to event viewer

 

[Gerry]

Wolfie

What make and model is the computer?

What type of Windows XP CD do you have?

What make and model is your hard drive?


--



Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Anna]

My computer will not boot and comes up with the error "A disk read error
occurred.
I researched that it may just be as simple as fixing the MBR by booting
from
the CD
but when i changed the boot sequence in the bios for CD it again fails to
load. How can i fix this hard drive? Is it possible to fix the partitions
by
USB Floppy disk, if so how.
Thanks for any assistance

Wolfie...
Just to make things clear you're indicating that you cannot boot to an XP
installation CD, right? You say "it again fails to load." This "it" you're
talking about is the bootable CD, right?

And you've no reason to suspect that you might have either a defective XP
installation CD or a defective optical drive on your hands, right?

And you're absolutely sure that when you changed the boot priority order in
the motherboard's BIOS to allow a first boot to the CD-ROM you saved that
setting when you exited the BIOS, right?

What exactly happens when you say "it again fails to load."? Error
message(s)? Black screen? What?

Do you have any idea why your boot HDD doesn't boot? Working fine one day
but not the next? Just happened "out-of-the-blue"? No hardware/software
changes that might have caused this?

And in the meantime you might want to check out the HDD with a diagnostic
utility generally available from the website of the disk's manufacturer.
Anna

 

[Gerry]

PD43

That matter was clarified 1 hour 49 minutes before you posted and we
have moved on.

--



Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Wolfie301]

When i try to boot from Hard Drive it displays error msg Disk Boot Failure,
Insert System disk and press Ctrl alt del
So i then change boot sequence and put xp disk in and when it boots it
displays Windows could not start because of an error in the software. Please
report this problem as: Load needed DLLs for kernel.
Please contact your support person to report this problem

 

[Wolfie301]

I can close this problem and thank all people that have tried to assist. I
noticed on boot up there was an option for recovery by pressing F10. the
system restore failed but the last option was a destructive recovery that
involved reformat and reload from a hidden partition. this did the trick so
again thanks all

 

[Gerry]

You will need to reinstall all Windows updates.


--



Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Anna]

LeRoy:
For reasons that I'm unable to comprehend, my responses to your query above
which you posted to the microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
newsgroup never seemed to have made it to that newsgroup (the original
subject-line being "Re: disk imaging software and boot ready cloned disk".
At least I've never come across my responses in that thread.

So I'm taking the opportunity of posting this message under a different
subject-name to this newsgroup with the hope that you'll come across it. In
any event perhaps the information will be useful to others.

Using the Casper 4 disk-cloning program, you've indicated that the
disk-cloning speed (rate of data transfer) from your internal HDD to your
USB external HDD is about 800 mb/s, i.e., 800 megabits per second. Is that
correct? If so, that would "translate" into something like 5722 MB
(megabytes) per minute or about 5.5 GB per minute. (We usually prefer using
MB/min or GB/min when referring to disk transfer speed re these disk-
cloning situations).

Our concern is generally the *total* amount of time it takes to complete a
disk-cloning operation. Because of Casper's so-called "SmartClone" feature
the total disk-cloning time will be mainly dependent on the interval between
disk-cloning operations - the shorter the interval, the shorter the time it
will take to complete the operation. This is unlike any other disk-cloning
program in my experience. With other disk-cloning programs the time it takes
to complete the operation will be roughly the same in terms of MB/min (or
GB/min) whether the disk-cloning operation was taken one day following the
previous disk cloning operation or 10 days later following the previous disk
cloning operation. So it's really this "SmartClone" capability of Casper 4
that makes the program so valuable in our view.

For example - using a "real-life" example involving a friend's computer I
was recently working on...

Using Casper 4 I performed the original (first) disk-cloning operation (from
an internal HDD to a USBEHD) a couple of days ago involving some 25 GB of
data. The disk-cloning operation took about 30 minutes to complete. Based on
my experience with other disk-cloning programs such as Acronis True Image,
Symantec's Ghost, etc., there wouldn't be much difference re disk-cloning
speed as it involves this *initial* disk-cloning operation.

During the past three days a few changes have been made in the system. A
program or two added, deleted, or otherwise modified, some files changed or
deleted - more-or-less the typical kinds of changes that the average user
undertakes in one's system over a short period of days.

Following that three-day elapsed period I just cloned the system again and
this time the disk-cloning operation took about two minutes. Two minutes.
And the likelihood is that should I clone the contents of that source HDD
again within the next few days it will probably take about the same two
minutes or so.

So here's the point...

Had I used another disk-cloning program (such as the ones mentioned above),
the disk-cloning operation undertaken today would have taken just about the
same time to complete as that *original* (first) disk-cloning operation,
i.e., 30 minutes or so. All disk-cloning programs that I'm familiar with
(excepting Casper 4) consider the disk-cloning process as a completely new
operation, not taking into consideration the fact that only incremental
changes may have been made since the last disk-cloning process and then
taking that factor into account in undertaking the current disk-cloning
operation.

That's the great advantage of Casper 4 in my experience. It gives the user a
strong incentive to routinely undertake disk-cloning operations for
comprehensive backup operations knowing that it will take only a relatively
short time to do so.

So I don't think your data transfer rate (assuming it's of the order of 5
GB/min) is out-of-order. Again it would depend to a large extent on the
frequency of your disk-cloning operations as noted above.
Anna

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Is this topic still going on? Is there any commission payable in the event of a
successful sale of new copy of Casper 4?

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Is there any commission payable in the event of a
successful sale of new copy of Casper 4?

Apparently, if you found a far superior software product
for a particular task, you'd not tell anyone, preferring to keep
it for yourself. Anna, on the other hand, wants to spread the
word, and you make snide comments. How pathetically
cynical - and lazy. All you have to do is a little Groups.Google
research, and you'd see that Anna used to recommend True
Image until Casper XP was improved and evolved to the
current Casper 4.0. Now she finds that Casper 4.0 is the best
cloner utility (in her experience), and she shares that experience
with us. So why does that illicite such a snide comment?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Bill in Co.]

LeRoy:
For reasons that I'm unable to comprehend, my responses to your query
above
which you posted to the microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
newsgroup never seemed to have made it to that newsgroup (the original
subject-line being "Re: disk imaging software and boot ready cloned disk".
At least I've never come across my responses in that thread.

So I'm taking the opportunity of posting this message under a different
subject-name to this newsgroup with the hope that you'll come across it.
In
any event perhaps the information will be useful to others.

Using the Casper 4 disk-cloning program, you've indicated that the
disk-cloning speed (rate of data transfer) from your internal HDD to your
USB external HDD is about 800 mb/s, i.e., 800 megabits per second. Is that
correct? If so, that would "translate" into something like 5722 MB
(megabytes) per minute or about 5.5 GB per minute. (We usually prefer
using
MB/min or GB/min when referring to disk transfer speed re these disk-
cloning situations).

Our concern is generally the *total* amount of time it takes to complete a
disk-cloning operation. Because of Casper's so-called "SmartClone" feature
the total disk-cloning time will be mainly dependent on the interval
between
disk-cloning operations - the shorter the interval, the shorter the time
it
will take to complete the operation. This is unlike any other disk-cloning
program in my experience. With other disk-cloning programs the time it
takes
to complete the operation will be roughly the same in terms of MB/min (or
GB/min) whether the disk-cloning operation was taken one day following the
previous disk cloning operation or 10 days later following the previous
disk
cloning operation. So it's really this "SmartClone" capability of Casper 4
that makes the program so valuable in our view.

For example - using a "real-life" example involving a friend's computer I
was recently working on...

Using Casper 4 I performed the original (first) disk-cloning operation
(from
an internal HDD to a USBEHD) a couple of days ago involving some 25 GB of
data. The disk-cloning operation took about 30 minutes to complete.

That's MUCH more like what I am getting, too (using TI for image backups to
an external USB drive enclosure.

But your figure above, Anna, is more like 0.8 GB/min (close to what I've
been seeing), but NOT anything close to his 5 GB/min.

5 GB/min seems amazing (that would only take 5 minutes to do 25 GB! -
amazing!). He must have a really hi speed computer (and perhaps a 4 or 5
GHz CPU)

 

[HeyBub]

Is this topic still going on? Is there any commission payable in the
event of a successful sale of new copy of Casper 4?

This is the XP newsgroup!

For commission sales of Casper, you should check with them.

 

[Anna]

That's MUCH more like what I am getting, too (using TI for image backups >
to an external USB drive enclosure.

But your figure above, Anna, is more like 0.8 GB/min (close to what I've
been seeing), but NOT anything close to his 5 GB/min.

5 GB/min seems amazing (that would only take 5 minutes to do 25 GB! -
amazing!). He must have a really hi speed computer (and perhaps a 4 or
5 GHz CPU)

Anna continues...

Bill:
The point I've been trying to make in my comments above is that what we
really should be considering is the *total* time expended to complete the
disk-cloning (backup) process. As I have tried to emphasize in my posts re
the Casper 4 program, its chief advantage over other disk-cloning programs
such as Acronis True Image is its capability of carrying out "incremental"
disk-cloning operations - what Casper terms its "SmartClone" technology. And
by so doing the program can complete routine subsequent backups in a
relatively short period of time.

Again, another example...

Over the past weekend, using Casper 4, I cloned the contents of an internal
HDD (about 30 GB of data) to a USB external HDD. This was the first time
that disk was cloned. I didn't record the time expended to complete the
disk-cloning operation but it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 or 40
minutes as I recall. In this respect (timewise) it would likely be of little
of no difference with other disk-cloning (or disk-imaging programs).

A few moments ago I again cloned the same drive to the same USBEHD. (During
the two day period I had made various data additions, deletions,
modifications, etc. Nothing too dramatic but changes nevertheless. The total
amount of data on the drive was still about 30 GB).

This time the disk-cloning operation took about three minutes. Repeat, three
minutes. So I suppose one could say that the data transfer rate from the
internal HDD to the USBEHD (in this case) was about 10 GB/min. But, of
course, that wasn't the case. Again, because of this so-called "SmartClone"
capability of Casper 4, the program was apparently able to detect the
changes in the source disk's data since the last disk-cloning operation and
just "clone" those changes to the destination drive. That, of course, is
what accounts for "data transfer" speed in this situation.

Based on my experience with other disk-cloning programs such as ATI, the
subsequent disk-cloning operation in the example above would have taken just
about the same time as the previous disk-cloning operation.

Again, it seems to me that this "incremental cloning" capability of Casper 4
is an enormous advantage for users in that it encourages them to maintain a
routine comprehensive backup program that can be employed on a frequent
basis - knowing that the disk-cloning operation will generally take only a
short period of time to complete. And the straightforwardness & simplicity
of using this program is an added bonus.
Anna

 

[Bill in Co.]

Anna continues...


Bill:
The point I've been trying to make in my comments above is that what we
really should be considering is the *total* time expended to complete the
disk-cloning (backup) process. As I have tried to emphasize in my posts re
the Casper 4 program, its chief advantage over other disk-cloning programs
such as Acronis True Image is its capability of carrying out "incremental"
disk-cloning operations - what Casper terms its "SmartClone" technology.
And
by so doing the program can complete routine subsequent backups in a
relatively short period of time.

Again, another example...

Over the past weekend, using Casper 4, I cloned the contents of an
internal
HDD (about 30 GB of data) to a USB external HDD. This was the first time
that disk was cloned. I didn't record the time expended to complete the
disk-cloning operation but it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 or
40
minutes as I recall. In this respect (timewise) it would likely be of
little
of no difference with other disk-cloning (or disk-imaging programs).

A few moments ago I again cloned the same drive to the same USBEHD.
(During
the two day period I had made various data additions, deletions,
modifications, etc. Nothing too dramatic but changes nevertheless. The
total
amount of data on the drive was still about 30 GB).

This time the disk-cloning operation took about three minutes. Repeat,
three
minutes. So I suppose one could say that the data transfer rate from the
internal HDD to the USBEHD (in this case) was about 10 GB/min. But, of
course, that wasn't the case.

No, that's right - and that is a bit misleading. I was just addressing the
*actual* data transfer rates, and finding it hard to believe in that 5
GB/min figure he mentioned (from the 800 Mbps figure he mentioned).
Doesn't sound like you've seen it either.