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A Disk Read Error has occurred...?

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almightybob7

Discussion Starter · Jan 5, 2007

Hello again,
My computer was working well up until yesterday, when I accidently knocked the plug for the surge protector out of the wall. The computer was running at the time, so it restarted. The POST was going alright, everything was being detected, until it tried to boot from the hard drive. It recognized that there was a boot image on the drive and everything, but it said,

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

I tried restarting, but the same thing popped up. The drive was working fine up until this point, no errors or anything. I tried reseating the memory, and it still happened. The hard drive is a Maxtor 200 gig hard drive which was just purchased in June, so I kind of hope that it isn't shorted out or anything.

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valis

· #9 · Jan 6, 2007

fwiw, I would try the repair console, getting to the command prompt, and running chkdsk /r first. Just to see if it works well enough to get into windows to do some serious diagnostics. Rather do that than rebuild first, but it sounds as if you are going to have to repair anyhow.

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