Solve : disc read error?

1.	Solve : disc read error?
Answer» The other night I heard my computer restart and thought nothing of it. The next morning i turned on the monitor to read "disc read error has occured. Press ctrl+alt+del..." I'm only able to access bios which does detect the hd. I have a student xp install disc and figured I could manage it's repair/recovery, but I didn't see any option of the sort. I wouldn't be worried except that there's a bunch of infos I'd like to retrieve and I don't have another pc i could hook my hd to and backup what's necessary. Before i consult a professional and dish out cash i don't have, was curious if ANYONE could pass some information along to help me determine the possible problem or perhaps remedy it. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.If the BIOS does not detect the drive your HARD drive may be toast...it does see it, i havent experienced anything erratic in the past months and it doesn't make any funky noises or anythingIf your system is working? you could use a external drive to transfer files ect.Sounds like a good idea, theres an option in bios to boot from a removeable device, but I'm not sure if it's possible to install an operating system on an external hd and boot from it as well? never tried it and don't know anyone who has. If so, I can see how it'd be possible copying the dataMight want to google [acronis] Quote from: robwalker on May 10, 2009, 02:41:52 PM Sounds like a good idea, theres an option in bios to boot from a removeable device, but I'm not sure if it's possible to install an operating system on an external hd and boot from it as well? never tried it and don't know anyone who has. If so, I can see how it'd be possible copying the data Getting a PC to boot from an external with any flavor of Windows can be a real chore... Run chkdsk /r on that drive...this will take awhile. Re-boot afterwards and then look into Xavier's suggestion above.To RECOVER your files, i would do the following: install a linux system (if you're not familiar with linux and you're not that good with COMPUTING, choose a larger, user-friendly distro like openSuse or Ubuntu. Otherwise, a lightweight distro is faster. i recommend Vector Linux or PCLinuxOS) install it either on your normal HDD or on an external one (i believe PCLinuxOS fits on a usb. i know that DamnSmallLinux does anyway :p ) then recover your files by mounting your windows (ntfs) partition and copying the files; you may have to force the mount. it's at your own risk, but in my opinion theres not really a large chance it will do any damage. if you want to try this method, look carefully on linux help websites, and ofcourse on your own distro's website. they should provide all info necessary. if you need any further help, PM me ps: after you've saved your data, do a low-level format with Hiren's BootCD (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd) and reinstall your system.

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The other night I heard my computer restart and thought nothing of it. The next morning i turned on the monitor to read "disc read error has occured. Press ctrl+alt+del..."

I'm only able to access bios which does detect the hd. I have a student xp install disc and figured I could manage it's repair/recovery, but I didn't see any option of the sort.

I wouldn't be worried except that there's a bunch of infos I'd like to retrieve and I don't have another pc i could hook my hd to and backup what's necessary. Before i consult a professional and dish out cash i don't have, was curious if ANYONE could pass some information along to help me determine the possible problem or perhaps remedy it.

Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.If the BIOS does not detect the drive your HARD drive may be toast...it does see it, i havent experienced anything erratic in the past months and it doesn't make any funky noises or anythingIf your system is working? you could use a external drive to transfer files ect.Sounds like a good idea, theres an option in bios to boot from a removeable device, but I'm not sure if it's possible to install an operating system on an external hd and boot from it as well? never tried it and don't know anyone who has.

If so, I can see how it'd be possible copying the dataMight want to google [acronis] Quote from: robwalker on May 10, 2009, 02:41:52 PM

Sounds like a good idea, theres an option in bios to boot from a removeable device, but I'm not sure if it's possible to install an operating system on an external hd and boot from it as well? never tried it and don't know anyone who has.

If so, I can see how it'd be possible copying the data

Getting a PC to boot from an external with any flavor of Windows can be a real chore...
Run chkdsk /r on that drive...this will take awhile.
Re-boot afterwards and then look into Xavier's suggestion above.To RECOVER your files, i would do the following:
install a linux system (if you're not familiar with linux and you're not that good with COMPUTING, choose a larger, user-friendly distro like openSuse or Ubuntu. Otherwise, a lightweight distro is faster. i recommend Vector Linux or PCLinuxOS)

install it either on your normal HDD or on an external one (i believe PCLinuxOS fits on a usb. i know that DamnSmallLinux does anyway :p ) then recover your files by mounting your windows (ntfs) partition and copying the files; you may have to force the mount. it's at your own risk, but in my opinion theres not really a large chance it will do any damage.

if you want to try this method, look carefully on linux help websites, and ofcourse on your own distro's website. they should provide all info necessary.

if you need any further help, PM me

ps: after you've saved your data, do a low-level format with Hiren's BootCD (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd) and reinstall your system.

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