I got a disk read error, now my pc makes a beeping noise and shuts down? Please help!?

Question

Duron Processor, Windows Xp pro, 250 gb harddrive 2 months old.

Its one solid beep and when getting harddrive info its a series of beeps and shuts down

Answer 1

Sound like your hard drive has a serious problem.

The way I do it is I go and buy a new hard drive.

I install Windows on it.

Then I install the faulty drive as a slave.
I recover all my data from it by copying it on the new one.
Then I format it.
When you format it, you will find out if there is something wrong with it. If there is, you might be able to create a partition to isolate the problem.

Please note that while faulty drive won't boot Windows, they will still start up as a slave. It has happened to me at least 4 times and I have always managed to recover my data from them.

When you format it, if you have a serious fault in it, the format will stop. Take note at what percentage the format stop. For instance if it stops at 10%, you know that 10% of 250Gb is 25 Gb. So the fault is at 25Gb.
Create a partition of 50Gb and don't format it.
Then format the remaining 200Gb and set it as the primary partition. Windows will ignore any partition which is not formatted.

Answer 2

http://mysearch.intel.com/corporate/default.aspx?culture=en-US&q=beep+codes

The above link describes what the beep codes mean and how to troubleshoot your problem. It could be your hard drive, but don't assume your problem is a hard disk. Just because it displayed an error doesn't mean it is the problem. An error could just indicate a program has a data error. (Beep codes do usually indicate a hardware failure of some type.)

Answer 3

if your getting a disk read error your hard drive is going bad as for the beep i would need more info is it a solid long beep or a series of beeps ect

Answer 4

ya sounds like u need new hard drive if it's only 2 months old id take it back to store and tell em where to put it

Answer 5

Sounds like your hard disk is dying.

Take it to an expert.

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