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VirtualPoet
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- Jan 19, 2009
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So, my computer has been acting a bit sketchy lately, but today takes the cake. I start it up only to get:
"A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart".
Bummer. So I give the magic 3 keys a try, and it just takes me back to the same screen during the post. Finally, desperate for anything, I go into the bios settings and turn off quick boot. Voila... the machine boots up...
Immediately I start googling in the vain hope of finding out if my machine is trashed or what... but not so many actual results on what it could be. Especially something that seems somewhat intermittent like mine... I ran a checkdisk a few days ago, so I'd be surprised if the drive were failing or spawned bad sectors, but I guess it's possible, I guess I just wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas?
For reference I'm on Windows XP, I can provide other details if necessary.
"A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart".
Bummer. So I give the magic 3 keys a try, and it just takes me back to the same screen during the post. Finally, desperate for anything, I go into the bios settings and turn off quick boot. Voila... the machine boots up...
Immediately I start googling in the vain hope of finding out if my machine is trashed or what... but not so many actual results on what it could be. Especially something that seems somewhat intermittent like mine... I ran a checkdisk a few days ago, so I'd be surprised if the drive were failing or spawned bad sectors, but I guess it's possible, I guess I just wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas?
For reference I'm on Windows XP, I can provide other details if necessary.