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Solve : agh please help! Only PC in house wont start up because of "disk read error"? |
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Answer» so this morning I attempted to start up my dell dimension 4850 (for those of you that know dell, yes it is old, yes I want to buy a new desktop but my parents don't think its required) and i get the quick little dell loading screen. Then, where I am supposed to get the windows xp loading screen I get a blank screen that simply says I know alot more about computers than most people ever learn A word of friendly advice: hold back on remarks like that, if you want to be helped (by volunteers who don't have to). If you know all that, how come you didn't do a backup? Especially since it sounds like the hard drive is failing. Quote I checked both hdd and they are functioning correctly. 1. How did you check that? 2. How do you know they are "functioning correctly"? Your options are limited unless you can remove the drive and install it as a slave in another PC. Then, copy off any recoverable data & burn it to optical disk(s). Since you "know a lot more about computers than most people ever learn", then that'll be a doddle, won't it? Or make a BartPE bootable pen drive with enough space to hold your (hopefully) recovered data. And learn a lesson. A professional architect who lost 2 years work because they couldn't be **ssed to do backups would (a) go out of business (b) deserve to. KidEngland22 - Welcome to the CH forums. Quote I know alot more about computers than most people ever learn Then you should know that your hard drive has failed or is possibly failing. Run the hdd manufacturers diagnostic software available at the manufacturers site (see here). Option: Install the drive on another pc as an internal slave or as an external usb mass storage device and try to backup your critical files. Perhaps you don't have to recover files because, using your in-depth knowledge of computers and their fallibilities, you have already backed up your files That's my lot, suggest you browse here.. Good luck. sorry. I didnt mean to come off sounding arrogant. But I have asked other people and they just treated me like a 5 year old. I just wanted to avoid being looked down on beacause of age. Sorry I have a cd that I ran on boot that checked the hdd. Said both were fine. The smaller secondary one is the stock 8 gig hdd. Where as the primary is a 300 gig western digital that is not even a year old. I have never had a problem with it before. The hdd it replaced worked flawlessly for 6 years before it went haywire. I haven't backed up because I really have noting to back up to other than the hdd itself. Outside my computer I have a 2 gig USB card and this iPhone. Quote I have a cd that I ran on boot that checked the hdd.What kind of CD is it? Quote I haven't backed up because I really have noting to back up to other than the hdd itself.CDs, and DVDs have been around for quiet a while.... it was the western digital cd that came with the hdd. I back onto DVD every 3 or so months. I took my pc to best buy, had GEEK squad take a look. They said it was the motherboard that was causing the problem, probably from overheating ( oops, guess I shouldn't try and play demanding games on a crap system). Bought a new comp today, put in the hdd's and they are fine and perfectly intact ( I just have 3 instances of xp loaded on them)This makes no sense at all... Neither does the Geek Squad's advice. Quote from: patio on August 17, 2008, 01:39:35 PM This makes no sense at all... Why's that? I could see files via the xp install disks repair prompt but could open no files. The hdd's were therefor readable and functioning but the computer could make no sense of the data. Bios problem. Had to be. Anyways I now have my hdd's working as they did before. Andihavent lost any data, at least as far as I can see. Quote from: patio on August 17, 2008, 01:39:35 PM This makes no sense at all... Patio, this is the guy who knows more about computers than most people learn in a lifetime, so when the guys at Bestbuy said his PC was hosed because the BIOS had overheated, and he'd better buy a new PC, he knew at once they were right. most people in the US learn how to create and save documents and that's it. I already said that what I previously stated came out wrong and that I didn't mean it the way it sounded. They didn't tell me to buy a new pc. I took the oportunity to coax my parents into getting a new one. There was probably a METHOD to update or reinstall the bios but why bother keeping an old compleate PIECE of crap for longer when the oportunity to get a brand new upgraded computer is staring me in the face. kidengland, FWIW I think you did the right thing. Just having a little fun at your expense Take it like a man. Stick around and soon you'll be dishing it out. I have talked up hardware faults to my nearest and dearest to UNLOCK funds for a new PC myself, so I shouldn't mock... Yeah, don't worry, Dias can be nasty, at times.................................. ..just kidding |
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