Can't Boot up :(

[Shaun Downey]

Recently I reformated my HD, and my xp was working fine.
Than all of a sudden while doing an adaware scan my comp
froze. I found this a lil weird, thought nothing of it
and restarted. When I attempted to restart I found out
that it wouldn't restart at all, I got an error a long
the lines of " A disk read error has occured, c+a+d to
restart" I just keep gettin this error. Help plz

 

[Rich Barry]

Shaun, on next startup tap the F8 button repeatedly. If you get a menu
Select Safe Mode
If the computer loads XP in safe mode then in MyComputer>Drive Icon C:
rt click and select tools>Error Checking
Check Now. If it gives you a message about doing it on next startup say
yes.