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Error Pre Windows
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:50 pm
by KingClub
I have done no changes to my CPU in a long time so I know I didn't mess anything up, but here is my problem.
RAM checks ok and it gets to the
verifying DMI pool data... (this clears and the next line is)
A disk read error occurred
press ctrl+alt+del to restart
but that does nothing
I check all voltages off the P/S they seem fine, checked the battery that reads ok, could the HD be bad?
Any help is always appricated
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:55 pm
by kenc51
Try booting from a CD
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:11 pm
by KingClub
I tried booting from the cd, it still comes up with the same error, after the boot from CD I press enter it waits a bit then back to the original error
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:17 pm
by Sparky
If you boot in to BIOS can you see the HD? If your BIOS has the option to detect HD do so and see if it's still there. I was working on a friends machine with a removable 'hot swap' IDE drive this week and had the same problem with a clean install of Windows. Only got it to work after removing the HD in the 'hot swap' and replacing it with another
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:32 am
by KnightRid
you can also try resetting bios to factory defaults - sometimes 1 little setting can throw everything off.
Mike
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:55 am
by Mad_Goku
I had a similar situation a long time ago. It ended up being my boot sector of the hard drive was corrupt. I ended up using a hard drive utility on a floppy to restore it.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:41 am
by KnightRid
Mad_Goku wrote:I had a similar situation a long time ago. It ended up being my boot sector of the hard drive was corrupt. I ended up using a hard drive utility on a floppy to restore it.
If that is the case you can go to the windows recovery console and fix the mbr
type HELP for commands - I think it is just FIXMBR
Mike