rapco
Dec 6 2004, 02:30 AM
| | Ok, the problem is:
"A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart"
So, i used another hard disk as the primary, and de "damged" on as secundary..
I don't have acces to that hard disk:
the model is:
Maxtor 6y120l0
Serial #: y328jdte
Firmaware: yar41bw0
i have tried everything i can think of, i even downloaded the PowerMAX utility to see if the hard disk was truly damaged, and no, every test passed.. correctly.. so..
I have very important data on that hard disk, please help!!!!!!
PD: I get no response from de CHKDSK command in the repair console and FIXMBR kind of freaks me... PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
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wwheeler
Dec 6 2004, 02:48 AM
QUOTE (rapco @ Dec 5 2004, 10:30 PM) Ok, the problem is: "A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart" Have you added it to the BIOS of your machine? I know that on my machine, to add a drive, I have to manually tell the bios to find the new drive...
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well heres a list of options: 1) you have a faulty disk in the drive (take it out  ) 2) you have a busted disk drive 3) you have a screwed up computer... you should probably just leave your computer off for a little while...
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rapco
Dec 6 2004, 03:36 PM
It's not the BIOS, the drive is recognized by it... i mean, i can see the drive when the pc boots, and even on windows, i just don't have acces to it... All the tests for phisicall damaged where fine. I know the problem can be solved by formating, but i'm afraid that might affect the opotunitie to recover data from the disk. Leaving the pc off.. humm... i tried that already, that was my first reaction to the proeblem. I'm not afraid about loosing the hard disk... i know it can be fixed.. i'm afraid about loosing my data!!!! HELP!!!!!
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ouachiski
Dec 11 2004, 07:55 AM
Ah maxtor problems. I am having that same problem intermitently right now. I had another one do it earlier this year allso. It is the wright heads going out I believe. If you have acces to a copy of knopix try booting it up and se if you can see the files on the drive that way. If that works Try to find a program called Spinrite 6.0 And give it a try. Its worth a try even if you cant get it to mount under knopix because spinrite does some pretty amazing stuff.
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MajesticTreeFrog
Dec 13 2004, 04:51 PM
hmm, you say you cannot access the drive? Are you running 2k or XP? it could be a permissions problem. I say this since the utilities for checking for physical damage came out ok but the software basic fixes such as chkdsk and fixmbr don't work. Have you tried looking at the properties of the drive in windows? BTW, does it show up in windows or can you see the icon but it won't let you actually access it?
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wanhafizi
Dec 14 2004, 03:41 AM
QUOTE (MajesticTreeFrog @ Dec 14 2004, 12:51 AM) hmm, you say you cannot access the drive? Are you running 2k or XP? it could be a permissions problem. I say this since the utilities for checking for physical damage came out ok but the software basic fixes such as chkdsk and fixmbr don't work. Have you tried looking at the properties of the drive in windows? BTW, does it show up in windows or can you see the icon but it won't let you actually access it? maybe his right. this probably happen when you are using NTFS. Word of advice, "NEVER USE NTFS TO STORE YOUR IMPORTANT DATA FILES". Why? because the recovery for NTFS is somewhat complicated. It is safer to use FAT32 instead. This was from my previous experience of loosing 80Gigs of data at an NTFS partition.
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zandramas
Dec 17 2004, 01:40 AM
Heres a future advice: Never keep copies or backups of data stuff on harddrives!!! I have had a few harddrive problems myself, and when I finally got a cd burner, I was really happy. Now I burn all my important data stuff to cd, and sometimes I make more than 1 copy of the cds.. Safety caution you know 
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rchill
Dec 18 2004, 03:32 PM
Check your hard disk for these cases: 1) The Hard disk's power cable is not connected properly or is out of order 2) The Hard disk's Data cable is not connected properly or is out of order 3) The hard disk is damaged, and is out of order... 4) The /windows/ folder is corrupted or may have been deleted.. 5) The Hard Disk's jumper settings are not configured correctly.. I think that your problem is on the hardware failure of your hard disk.. try checking the connections and jumper settings of your hard disk..
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wanhafizi
Dec 20 2004, 05:07 PM
you can use other pc to plug in your hd and retrive the data. if there are error msg was something about "access denied", then maybe you have used NTFS. in that case, use the following; boot your hd using original copy of PowerQuest cd. select "partition magic", and convert your NTFS file system to normal fat32. then, reboot. this should erase security entries such from the filesystem. this is the best workaround i can find about .
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iGuest
Oct 30 2009, 02:12 AM
Read Disk Error Windows 7
A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del To
I also am having this problem in windows 7. It only happens to me when one of my external hard drives is plugged in.
Another "funny" thing is that the installation process corrupted one of my secondary externals (seriously? how does that happen).
I believe strongly that this is windows 7 related. Keep us all updated if anyone finds a fix.
-reply by Steven
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iGuest
Oct 27 2009, 11:30 AM
Happened to me also. This is too much of a coincidence that these errors happened when upgrading to Windows 7, so it must be an incompetent installation process.
Coupled with the abysmal attitude of Microsoft as regards the upgrade paths I am seriously considering migrating away as soon as it becomes a viable option.
Microsoft - you treat your customers, or perhaps you call them suckers, badly and the Windows 7 fiasco must surely rebound on you sooner rather than later.
-reply by Chas C
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iGuest
May 16 2009, 10:51 AM
I have the same problem
what I did
1) installed windows 7
2)found my windows xp 64 bit cd and started to install that, all was going fine it finished prep for installation
3) it asked me to restart my computer and I clicked yes, it did that and then when it came back on I got that error
what I think it is
I think it was an overlap of the OS and it screwed up the harddrive.
-reply by patrick lorio
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rapco
Jan 11 2005, 04:34 AM
Well, after spinrite nothing change... and i mounted the damaged HD on a win xp pc, and it was recognized in windoews, only not accesible... i ran a lot of diagnostic programs and they all show the phisical parts are ok Could u send me the link to get Knopix, i'm gessing, linux=free, Knopix too??? It's not intermitent is permanent!!!! the reason a haven't give it a low density fromat is because i'm afraid i might loose ALL MY SUPER ULTRA HYPER MEGA iIMPORTANT DATA!!!!, for the moment (because my main board was damaged like two weeks later  i haven't have the oportunity to work on it), i'm gathering data recovery software to try to get my data back! Thanks, and please keep posting!!!! PD: I found a page where they know how to solve this problem, but they charge like 40 bucks...  PEOPLE ARE WAY TOO SELFISH!!!! altough, if i could get my hands in 40 usd i'll pay them  and YES, it's very very common, search google and see for yourselves
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Ploforia
Jan 10 2005, 05:48 PM
Rapco - I would definitely make sure you 'mount' the drive on a computer running a NTFS platform such as NT, 2000 or XP. Preferably the platform this drive would have been formatted with in order to really rule out the physical damage issue. It sounds like the drive should at least be intermittent, from what you describe. When mounted on the correct platform - if there is truly a physical problem you, I would expect the drive to befunctioning intermittently. For instance perhaps you might be able to read the contents of the drive but have errors when you try to access the actual files or just some of the files.
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