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Vorkronor Contributor
Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 3
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart |
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Hi,
I have been plaqued by bad luck since I built my HTPC
The configuration is:
Asus A7N8X-VM 400
AMD Sempron 2300+
256MB DDR 333
Leadtek WinFast PVR 2000 (TV tuner)
a generic 300W PSU
a mini tower/desktop case
First I had an old WD 20GB / 5400rpm drive, that died within a few days after installation . S.M.A.R.T. message at POST: "Status BAD, Replace". This drive was used occasionally and showed no signs of iminent failure before it's demise.
I bought a brand new Samsung Spinpoint P (160GB 2MB cache) as a replacement drive. Everything went smoothly first, but after two weeks the drive got bad.
First sign of the problems was a black screen at boot time displaying "A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart". After rebooting the computer eventually got to desktop, but took about 30 minutes to do so . Usually it took about 30 seconds.
The drive was RMA'd yesterday after if refused to format a new partition (tried to reinstall the OS, but after 15 minutes, the 64GB main NTFS partition format was still at 0% complete).
The PC case is an Eurocase MS32 used as a desktop (the HDD is mounted vertically) situated in [url=http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10101&storeId=12&productId=32419&langId=-1&parentCats=10104*10174]this TV table[/url] and it gets moved quite often, but only when the PC is shut down.
I definitely don't want a hard drive failure to happen again, so if any one knows if the two events could be linked, or you have any experience like this - please help and share your thoughts.
thanx
desperately yours
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mrvoland Contributor
Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 4
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:56 am Post subject: |
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your new HDD is bad...
try to replace with new
i use Western Digital and i dont have any problems |
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dellsmaith Contributor
Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 3
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: |
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When i restart my computer it gives a problem "A disk read error occured press Ctrl+Alt+del to restart " and after i press Ctrl+Alt+del it works fine. But this is the same problem i always have during the windows startup. I have installed the fresh copy of windows Xp twice but did not get the solution. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. |
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