Re: A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart
- From: "Dana Cline - MVP" <dcline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:46:37 -0600
I had something similar happen (but never to a Seagate). I eventually had to
reinstall the OS. However, this install eventually went bad too - while a
reformat can lock out bad sectors, if the disk is going bad, chances are it
will continue to go bad.
Fortunately, disks are pretty cheap these days. My suggestion would be to
buy a new disk, install the OS on it, then connect up the bad disk and see
if you can recover anything from it.
When you partition that new disk, I'd also suggest you create a small drive
(C:) for the OS, and partiton the rest (D:) as a place to put your data.
That way if you ever have to reinstall the OS, your data may still be there
in the separate partition.
Dana Cline - MCE MVP
"Lee Beck" <Lee Beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:735F5363-E86F-4414-B5F5-3BD0993BAE52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I got this message a week or so ago and came here and did a search. The
> respondents to other similar queries seemed to indicate that my hard drive
> had gone bad (after checking that there was not a disk in the drive, etc.)
> I
> ran Seagate's HDD diagnostics and it says that the drive is okay. So this
> leads me to probably a software problem (e.g., my XP Pro). I also ran a
> software download called GetDataBack which allows you to see if there is
> readable data on the HDD by installing it as a slave in an operating
> computer. I can see my data. Also, Device Manager says that the drive is
> operating normally, but clicking on the "Properties" tab shows no capacity
> (0
> GB used 0GB available).
>
> Before purchasing the GDB software and getting data back (but not
> programs)
> I'd like to try a few more tricks, since the next step after attempting to
> get data off the drive is to reformat it and reinstall windows. I have a
> few
> questions:
>
> 1. Of course my first question is whether any of you computer experts can
> lead me down a road to a solution. I'm at the point of doing whatever
> might
> work since my next steps will lose my data/programs anyway.
>
> 2 Is there any chance that performing a Windows utility might repair the
> drive? I've already tried the "Repair" utility on the XP setup CD. It
> found
> some bad sectors and said that it repaired them, but I continue to get the
> cited error message with every boot try. Maybe I have a damaged MBR? Is
> there some way to check that out, or would that give a different error
> message?
> 3 Should I reinstall XP? At this point, the computer is not even getting
> to
> the OS. I get the message right after the BIOS screen.
> 4 I have Norton SystemWorks and have kept my virus definitions up-to-date.
> I did a virus check and no viruses were found. Is there a Norton utility
> that will help?
> 5 Would you recommend a data recovery utility other than GDB? The
> software
> costs $50 and seems a little squirly. Maybe it's because I'm using the
> free
> download that only checks data availability, but it freezes my machine
> after
> finding the data (the HDD continues to churn away using all available
> system
> memory).
>
> Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks.
>
.
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