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Disk Read Error

  • 14-11-2011 1:15am
    #1
    Velvety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭


    When booting up my PC recently, I've been getting "A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart." This doesn't happen every time, but more often than not. This started happening after I installed Skyrim and downloaded new drivers for my graphics card, I don't know if that's a co-incidence.

    Googling around told me that my hard drive might be in trouble so I downloaded the appropriate hard drive diagnostic tool and that said it's fine. Unfortunately, I just realised I hadn't set any system restore points, so I can't roll it back to an earlier time. I tried using a windows repair disk to see if that could sort it out, but no joy.

    Any suggestions as where to go from here?

    Im running windows 7.


Comments

  • #2
    ahal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭ahal


    I'm a Windows XP pro man myself, but I had a similar problem recently. Despite thinking it was a software issue, it was in fact a totally screwed drive. The drive passed a Low Level Format twice without errors!

    Eventually it transpired that there were audibly bad sectors ... the drive was noisy and was 'seeking' almost constantly in the same place, along with my old friend the 0000007B error or similar.

    Get whatever you want off the drive and nuke it would be my advice ... download the drive manufacturer's diagnostics and do all the advanced read / write / burn in procedures. Takes a long time to do but guessing takes even longer! Obviously if it fails, feck it in the bin.

    It could be a slowly dying drive, which was what I encountered (and I suspected exactly the kind of things that you suspect, on the basis that it was intermittant rather than a sudden death of the drive)

    Hope this is of some help.


  • #3
    Velvety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭Velvety


    Cheers. I backed up everything important there. I updated every driver I could and threw on a new BIOS. I'm hoping it might sort itself out but that might be a bit head-in-the-sand.


  • #4
    ahal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭ahal


    Velvety wrote: »
    Cheers. I backed up everything important there. I updated every driver I could and threw on a new BIOS. I'm hoping it might sort itself out but that might be a bit head-in-the-sand.

    Lol ... I know all about head in the sand ... I could teach head in the sand when it comes to IT at this stage :p

    Best of luck with it :)


  • #5
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    In your BIOs try changing SATA mode to IDE/Legacy from AHCI (AHCI can cause strange issues). You hard drive may also be the issue, as mentioned above would be no harm downloading the manufactuers diagnostics utility and running a full scan just to be sure. Check your SATA config first and see how it goes.

    Nick

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