Re: a disk read error

Error Message:
A Disk Read Error Occurred, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

Translation:
Your BIOS cannot read large partitions on your hard drive.

Solution:
If you get a hard drive read error message after the Windows installation
program reboots your machine, then your BIOS may not be capable of reading
a hard drive the size that you set up. Open the BIOS and make sure to enable
LBA support for the hard drive, and that SMART montioring is also enabled.

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
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"michael" wrote:

| Hi
|
| My XP crashed and I had to reinstall it.
| After formatting (during XP installation),
| the windows started to install some files
| and reboot the system automatically (regular routine so far)
| During the reboot, it said "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del
| to restart"
| message came up and the system halted.
|
| What do you think is the problem?
|
| I'd appreciate your inputs.
| Thank you
|
| michael

.

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