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  • chris31560
    DK Veteran
    • Feb 2010
    • 912
    #1

    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....

    A LITTLE THANX GOES A LONG WAY


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    • cgscott
      V.I.P. Member
      • Jul 2008
      • 3513
      #2
      Looks like a hard drive problem.

      Try running chkdisk on hard drive from windows repair.
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        • GastonJ
          V.I.P. Member
          • Dec 2009
          • 5505
          #3
          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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            • R_J
              DK Veteran
              • Jan 2009
              • 492
              #4
              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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                • maara35
                  Newbie
                  • Jun 2012
                  • 4
                  #5
                  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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