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"a disk read error occured"
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Allright, so recently my computer has behaved weirdly and I was getting this blue screen during the windows startup that said "a fatal error has occured,...", and this morning even before it starts up windows I get this message: "a disk read error occured press ctrl + alt + del to restart". Restarting is useless,I tried looking around in the bios setup and I did a long hardware check, but still nothing. I did a google search and apparently chances are I gotta reformat my disk and probably won't recover what was on the drive. Can anyone help me please????
Gravity sucks
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"I only drink on 2 occasions. When I'm thirsty, and when I'm not."
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try running windows in safe mode F8
if disc works its a software problem/virus
Stress will get you nowhere,
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I can't even access my safe mode menu anymore, it stops before that...
Gravity sucks
'Weighing in at only 125 lbs, I could easily bench double my weight as a senior in H.S.; maxing out at an outstanding 245 lbs. I still had the build of a small person.' - d-loc
"I only drink on 2 occasions. When I'm thirsty, and when I'm not."
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are you working on that computer right now and its
just the dvd drive not working
Stress will get you nowhere,
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my bad I can see yr not on it now, Blue screens are
a bad sign, You usually get a couple before the hard drive crashes. Your stuff still might be retrievable
at a computer shop. Sorry but doesn't sound too good
Stress will get you nowhere,
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and if it ain't working in safe mode well I'd start
swearing
Stress will get you nowhere,
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1. Throw pc out window
2. Buy mac
3. be happy because it will always work and can stay on for months-years without needing a restart for any reason beside software install
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Everybody says that and its pretty annoying.
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1. get a new hard drive, set it up as your master drive and the other as the slave (don't forget to set your jumpers), install windows on it, then see if you can access anything on the other drive.
2. if that doesn't work, take it to a data recovery service if you care enough to pay ~$500.
3. poop all over your computer
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-seanPISTOL
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i know man. I have 2 macs and 2 pcs and macs really arnt a whole lot more reliable. I mean they are a little, but not that much. and they wont degrade and have to reinstall the os every year. I have had plenty of mac shit crash though.
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-guttermouth
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you need to make a boot disk, format and f disk the mother, and reinstall. theres not much you can do about it unless you backed it up.
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^^could I use an external hard drive to do that? I got one thats 40gb, so I hope that can do it...
Gravity sucks
'Weighing in at only 125 lbs, I could easily bench double my weight as a senior in H.S.; maxing out at an outstanding 245 lbs. I still had the build of a small person.' - d-loc
"I only drink on 2 occasions. When I'm thirsty, and when I'm not."
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you can only do that if you can boot from the disk- ie you can see it in the BIOS. If you can, that would work fine.
Don't buy a mac desktop, either. Mac laptops are superior (i have one) but desktops are either really weak or really underpowered.
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-seanPISTOL
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all hard drives eventually fail,
macs are a little slower browsing the web,
pc's are better for workplace but virus prone, need all the security shit. but have so many different programs to choose from.
Mac's are great for home use & video potential
Stress will get you nowhere,
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that didn't make sense... i meant to say they are really expensive or really underpowered
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-seanPISTOL
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^ahaha yeah im lookin forward to getin a mac laptop
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that is bullshit. I work with Macs all the time and those things crash all the time. people say that because most mac users are light users so they dont push their computers and they dont get any problems alot of PC users who get problems are power users and push their systems.
my PC is so much more stable than the macs I use.
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yeah,the only real thing I know doesn't crash very often is Linux. Well apparently im pretty screwed, so I'll just wait until my geeky stepdad gets back home...
Gravity sucks
'Weighing in at only 125 lbs, I could easily bench double my weight as a senior in H.S.; maxing out at an outstanding 245 lbs. I still had the build of a small person.' - d-loc
"I only drink on 2 occasions. When I'm thirsty, and when I'm not."
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