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| Thread ID: 110796 | 2010-07-02 02:19:00 | Acer TravelMate 2301LC laptop | zqwerty (97) | Press F1 |
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| 1115258 | 2010-07-02 02:19:00 | Only has 256 Meg ram, running very slow, 50 processes, ran Malwarebytes to check for spy ware, found no spyware, started running really slow, rebooted and came up with message: A disk read error occurred Press Cntrl+Alt+Del to restart. does not restart just repeats message. What to do now? What are keys for recovery partition? |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1115259 | 2010-07-02 03:06:00 | First thing I'd try is boot from a bootable CD, something like Linux, see if the drive or the contents of the drive are visible. The disk read error could be a failed or failing HDD. "If" the Drive has failed, then no amount of recovery will work. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1115260 | 2010-07-02 03:15:00 | Ok don't have bootable CD at moment, will try when I get one from home. Anything else I can do, I think it tried to boot from WLAN 802.11g CardBus Adaptor which owner put in DVD drive to use wireless and left in; because I heard the dvd drive spinning up like crazy and it preceded HDD in boot order, I have changed boot order in bios to HDD first but no change in behaviour. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1115261 | 2010-07-02 05:51:00 | Just got home and looked at my emergency disks, I have Ultimate Boot CD 501, Damn Small Linux 2.2, ERD Commander 2008 and System Rescue CD x86 0.2.15, which one should I use? | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1115262 | 2010-07-02 05:53:00 | Anything that will show the drive - I'd use ERD commander then Linux if ERD cant find the drive. Its only to test if the drive / files are visible. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1115263 | 2010-07-02 09:24:00 | So are you saying that if the files are visible to then not proceed with further action using the disk, I have already tried Alt+F10 to invoke recovery partition with no result. This laptop has Chinese writing on the bottom so it may be a re-install of US XP, and may not even have a recovery partition. Assuming files are visible what is next step? I am next going in to work on Monday afternoon so that will be earliest for analysis of HDD status. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1115264 | 2010-07-02 09:40:00 | Using a Live CD, it may show if there is a recovery partition (may not either). The idea behind the "reading of the HDD" is trying to determine if the "A disk read error occurred" message is simply corrupted programs/OS or if the HDD has a problem being accessed -- that error can be caused by either faulty software, or faulty Hardware or even failed sectors on the drive. Few other things to read (www.tomshardware.com) first answer: it can be a real pain in the Butt trying to find the fault :( You can also try resetting the BIOS back to default settings. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1115265 | 2010-07-02 10:13:00 | Thanks for the help so far wainuitech, will wait for Monday afternoon now, have plenty of other work to do this weekend whilst the Sun is shining. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1115266 | 2010-07-02 11:07:00 | Run seatools from ultimate boot disk and see if the hard disk is ok. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1115267 | 2010-07-02 14:03:00 | Will do on Monday Alex B if I have time, I'm doing graphics for adverts but was asked to look at laptop as it was running very slowly, and it died whilst I was evaluating it. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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