What should i do when this message"A reading disk error occurred, press Ctrl+Alt+ Del to restart" displayed?

Question

I didn't turn on my computer for almost 2 months because i went for holiday. First time i turned on the computer, everything was normal, but a few minutes later, there was an error message displayed and asked me to restart. When i restarted, the message above appeared while the window was still loading. I tried to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart but the same message appeared. Window failed to initialize the loading. Does it mean that i need to change a new hard disk?Plz somebody help me.

Answer 1

pop in ur windows disk see if it see ur hard drive


do a Repair from the cd that should fix it

if not u reformat

shouldnt need a new HD

Answer 2

This is one of the most frustrating error messages you can ever deal with. Sometimes the fix is simple, sometimes it's a complete pain. Having recently dealt with this again, I thought I'd post my thoughts in the hopes that it helps someone else out there. So you receive the dreaded "a disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Multiple restarts result in the same error message. If you put your drive into another computer, or connecting it as a slave on your own computer, it will typically work fine, and no data is missing. Because this error is not usually associated with data loss, DO NOT RE-PARTITION THE DRIVE. Your data is likely safe and sound. Here's how we'll recover your data. Try each step below, in order, and see if your drive becomes accessible after each step. In my experience, you won't start seeing results until step 5 or so. 1. Run CHKDSK /R /P from the recovery console (it will typically find no error) 2. run FIXBOOT from recovery console (typically has no result) 3. run FIXMBR from recovery console (typically has no result) 4. Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility, downloaded from their website (it will typically find no error) 5. Changing the drives from cable select to Master/Slave may fix it. 6. Replacing the data cable may fix it, but usually not. 7. Setting the BIOS to use defaults may fix it, but usually not. 8. Changing the BIOS drive settings from auto to user-specified, ensuring that LBA is selected may fix it. 9. Pulling the CMOS battery to let the BIOS lose it settings may work. At this point, you may be feeling some frustration. :-) If all that fails, here's what will usually work: Ghost your data to a new drive, and use the original one as a slave. It will work. And all of your data will still be accessible. Your computer should boot normally. If it doesn't, or it there are errors, run the Repair Installation option from your Windows boot CD. But why does this happen? Nobody seems to know why. The problem typically evades all forms of detection. Here's what I've learned: this error message likely has more to do with a hardware interaction between the drive and your system than any actual issues with the drive. To put it one way, your motherboard and drive are no longer on speaking terms. I don't know why the original disk has no problems being a slave. Perhaps it got tired of running the show. Perhaps it's preparing for retirement. I hope this helps!

Answer 3

Eventually ... yes.

Right now it may just be bad sectors on the hard drive.

You will need to boot the computer with a diagnostic & repair utility from a floppy or CD to properly diagnose & correct the problem.

Download this free utility & follow the instructions:
(Performs random reads and seeks on the hard disk to check for catastrophic physical problems)

http://www.ontrack.com/dataadvisor/

Given the low low cost of hard drives you may be better off just buying a new one if the problem persists.

regards,
Philip T

Answer 4

Bro/Sis,

Please be sure that when you on the pc, there's no cd or floppy disk inserted.

If it already check, follow some of my guidelines below.

1. Shut down, open your pc casing, pull out your RAM, and clean it up with soft, dry, meterial and then attach it back and try to turn on.
2. If the prob still appear, insert a start up disk and check if there's any damage with the hard disk.
3. If you can't trace anything, you pull out your hard disk, take out the jumper at the back of your hard disk, make it as a "slave", then you go to your friend that have pc and make it as a partition hard disk. You try to check it with your friend's pc.
4. Lastly, if still the prob arise, check with any pro, and follow his reconmendation.

Hope this will help.

Answer 5

I assume you use XP. If you still have the XP disc, pop it in the CD drive, boot from CD and go to Repair Console mode instead XP install. At the propmt, type in:

CHKDSK C: /F

Try this before rebuilding or replacing the actual harddrive (worst case) as it could just be as simple as corrupted hdd sector configuration. Let me know if detailed instruction needed.

Answer 6

Window is a program 'window'
try delete all new programmes because normally
it is more than one program that is causing this

But sometimes you can't because it won't let you.

But some times the window is 'windows' and it didn't load properly

In the last two cases all you can do is reinstall

sorry

Answer 7

Either that or make sure there is not floppy disk or cd in any of the drives. If there aren't, then replace the HD.

Answer 8

If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yk5zpr