Hi,

I have been having the following problem with my PC since yesterday.

The problem is it gave me the error with the following message "A disk error occured. press ctrl + alt + del. The background of the screen was black (you know, it's just like in the command prompt. Strangely, it was working really well. I was working on some word documents, surfing the net until i left for lunch. When i came back, i saw a black screen with that error message on it.

Anyway, i managed to re-format the whole HARD drive - not a quick format but a normal format. After installing windows, i went to install all the drivers needed e.g. Lan connection driver, sounds, and so on. It was in the middle of installing some drivers where it went hang. So i had to turn it off by force.

Next, i re-started the PC. It took a while (unusual one - probably 1 minute) to load up windows. The windows was successfully loaded but i'm worried about the time it takes to get it loaded up. It's as if it was frozen or something. but if you wait a bit longer, then you see the windows logo POP up.

My question is whether this is to do with other PARTS of the computer or i need to get another hard disk that causes a delay in starting up the windows.

However, it seems all right once Windows is up (don't know if it'd go hang again in the future but so far so good).

Thank you in advance



  Your hdd is probably about to fail, ensure your critical files have been backed up.

Put your error message into Google for lots of similar occurrences and suggestions, run disk diagnostics from the manufacturer's site.

Good luckhave you TRIED to check the bios of your computer,some bios can be changed to fastboot so it will boot up faster.. Quote from: clark_styx on April 04, 2008, 05:30:20 AM

have you tried to check the bios of your computer,some bios can be changed to fastboot so it will boot up faster..