Error Pre Windows

KingClub · Post by **KingClub** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:50 pm

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

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:55 pm

Try booting from a CD

KingClub · Post by **KingClub** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:11 pm

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

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:17 pm

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

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:32 am

you can also try resetting bios to factory defaults - sometimes 1 little setting can throw everything off.

Mike

Mad_Goku · Post by **Mad_Goku** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:55 am

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.

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:41 am

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