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Try running chkdisk on hard drive from windows repair.
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hi guys, hope someone can help, i bought a comp the other ...
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re, error hi guys, hope someone can help, i bought a comp the other day all seemed fine until yestarday when it started playin up ie re,booting its self not retaining the persanol settins ive put in and now when i try to boot it up it just says,
A disk read error occured press ctrl+alt+del to restart:
does anyone know wot this means, when i press this combanation it just goes bk to the above.cheers..chris....
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or the BIOS has forgotten the settings. Where/whoever you bought it from may know what the BIOS settings are supposed to be. Not knowing whether its' a SATA or PATA drive won't help etc.
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If its loosing settings, check or replace the bios battery. also check the motherboard for bulging capacitors. I just repaired a intel P4 D845, it was restarting about once every hour to once a day, 2 caps. near the cpu were bad.
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I would recommend to try booting from and CD/DVD/USB, could be the Win7/Vista/XP instal media and repair with the console (by pressing -R due booting and then run the consolle commant with, as was said here, commands chkdsk/ f and then fixboot or fixmbr).
CHKDSK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you have a free USB, try to instal an system-to-go (like Slax:
Slax: your pocket operating system
You can save all data from HD (if it is possible) before trying all the fixing :-)
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