re, error

[chris31560]

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....

[cgscott]

Looks like a hard drive problem.

Try running chkdisk on hard drive from windows repair.

[GastonJ]

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.

[R_J]

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.

[maara35]

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHKDSK)

If you have a free USB, try to instal an system-to-go (like Slax:

Slax: your pocket operating system (http://www.slax.org/)

You can save all data from HD (if it is possible) before trying all the fixing :-)