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A Disk Read Error Occurred - The aftermath

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Bossman

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Early today I received a blue screen of death on my Windows XP Pro. I can't remember the exact error message but it went somewhere along the lines of "Unfoldable Kernal Page" or something the likes. After rebooting my computer, I noticed a distinct slow down with it booting up, and eventually it crashed on me. A subsequent reboot of my computer ended up with me getting an "A disk read error occurred. Press Alt + Ctrl+ Del to restart"

I think I managed to fix the problem by using the Windows Recovery program and doing a CHKDSK /R as recommended by people on various internet forums. It did the trick, I set it so that Windows would load the last known working setting, and I was able to get Windows XP running again. HOWEVER, my boot up since then has been unusually slow. Various activities like opening the Start Menu, and using the File Explorer has also been plagued by slowness. I'm also unable to start programs like World of Warcraft, I'm getting an error message saying that the program is unable to start up the 3D acceleration and that I should check if Directx 9.0c and my video card driver is up to date.

I'm now reinstalling Directx 9.0c and my video card driver as we speak, this might fix World of Warcraft but I'm pretty sure my system will still be sluggish.

I have no idea what's going on with my system now, and I'm turning to the HardOCP community for help. You guys are the only bunch of people that I have confidence that might have a fix for all of this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Download Ultimate Boot CD or some bootable CD / Floppy that has hard drive diagnostics on it. Both IBM Drive Fitness Test and Seagate SeaTools will see and test all drives as long as they are not on a weird RAID controller. I can almost promise you that you have a bad hard drive. Back up any and ALL data you need while you still can. The longer it is on and the more stuff u try and load onto it, the worse it will get.

Good luck!
 
My computer isn't overclocked and is around four to five years old now.

I've been trying to back up my files but I noticed that the things I need have disappeared, entire directories and files that were once under the Program Files folder has now disappeared. I know I can still access the files if I had a short cut to them on my start menu, but any other attempts to view them using the file explorer or the CMD browser has failed.

This is very troubling since the exact things I needed to back up also happened to be in the very same directories that are now missing. Does anyone know how I can go about to making these directory visible again?

Once again, any assistance is appreciated!
 
If so, take out the drive from your dead system and hook it up in the different computer.

At least check to see if you can fully access the drive.
 
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