Data Error Reading Drive C Windows Vista
List Welcome Guide More BleepingComputer.com → Microsoft Windows Support → Windows 95/98/ME Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Register a free account to unlock additional features at BleepingComputer.com Welcome to BleepingComputer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site. Click here to Register a free account now! or read our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Data Error Reading Drive C Started by DaBiz , Jul 14 2008 02:49 PM Please log in to reply 7 replies to this topic #1 DaBiz DaBiz Members 26 posts OFFLINE Local time:09:32 AM Posted 14 July 2008 - 02:49 PM Hi guys, We have a third computer in our house that is quite old, and that my parents basically just use for word processing. This computer runs Windows98 and is no longer is able to start up. When it is starting up, it starts like normal, and the cloudy blue Windows 98 logo come up for about 30seconds, then a dos screen comes up with a message reading "data error reading drive c" with options to retry, ignore, or fail. Like I say, this computer is quite old (probably about 12 years old). If I could get it up and working again that would be great, but if there is any way to recover files, my parents would be quite pleased with that as well. If you need any more information about the computer, please let me know, and I'll be happy to provide it. Thanks! Back to top BC AdBot (Login to Remove) BleepingComputer.com Register to remove ads #2 Axephilic Axephilic MRU Graduate Members 224 posts OFFLINE Gender:Male Location:Wisconsin, U
Close × Menu Repair Guides Answers Forum Parts & Tools Store Teardowns Translate Join Log In GO iFixit Fast Order Create a Page Edit Billing Info Order History Logout Join Log In Repair Guides Answers Forum Parts & Tools Store Teardowns Translate « Back to Answers Index 81760 PC Desktop Computers that generally don't include an integrated display, and are meant to be stationary. data error 591 Questions View all Kevin Rep: 25 3 1 Posted: 03/04/2012 Options Permalink History Subscribe Unsubscribe data error reading drive c Ok, Ive got a old computer running windows 95(yes I know, old and obselete hardware);I got it from a friend, and when I try to boot it up, it will give me a data error reading drive c message. Before any of you here ask "why do you have something that old?" let me say that http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/157691/data-error-reading-drive-c/ this is just something to tinker around with, and I am learning computer repair, so I figure what a better way to do it than with this old machine? Any ideas? I don't think the hard drive is bad, because I can do a scan disk check just fine. Also, I DO have a Gaming desktop that is up to date. Any help would be apprerciated. Please, no wise cracks to this question. Thank you. Answered! View the answer I have this problem too Subscribed to https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/81760/data+error+reading+drive+c new answers Is this a good question? Yes No Voted Undo Score 1 Cancel Comments: Kevin, there is nothing wrong with having a device that is old/older, as long as it works and serves your purpose :-) 03/04/2012 by oldturkey03 oldturkey03, true 03/04/2012 by Kevin Sounds good Kevin. Let me know if you need a couple of those mice :-) have a ton of them still around as well as an original of Win95 just in case :-) 03/04/2012 by oldturkey03 oldturkey03,add me on yahoo, if you want. thanks 03/07/2012 by Kevin Check the Bios on your machine and see if it recognizes the HDD. Do you have Win95 on CD or Floppy Disk? Do you have a working CD drive? Does your computer allow to boot from CD (Check in the BIOS)?. you are added :-) 03/08/2012 by oldturkey03 Add a comment 0/1024 Cancel Post comment Are you sure you want to delete this zzzzzz? Cancel The All-New Pro Tech Toolkit The high performance electronics repair kit. On Sale Now 3 Answers Filter by: Most Helpful Newest Oldest Chosen Solution oldturkey03 @oldturkey03 Rep: 365k OTS 569 259 1k Posted: 03/04/2012 Options Permalink History Kevin, this may be caused by a defective sector or an incomplete file. On startup, go to DOS and type scandisk. ScanDisk might patch it, but if the hard drive has too many bad sectors or files, it could take very long. Of course you will have to have a DOS startup disk. You could also try to get into safemode.
this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?20282-Data-error-reading-drive-c-Abort-Retry-Fail forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Results 1 to 5 of 5 Thread: Data error reading drive c: Abort,Retry,Fail? Tweet Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page… Subscribe to this Thread… Search Thread Advanced Search Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode March 6th, 2001,04:11 PM #1 nitin_fine View Profile View Forum Posts Virtual Med Student Join Date Mar 2001 Location India Posts 23 data error Data error reading drive c: Abort,Retry,Fail? I wanna wanted to know that is there anybody here know the answer to my question if yes then please help me out with this problem because i am fed-up with this error message now? For more detail i wanna want to tell you all the I get this message whenever I boot up my system and when it goes to the windows 98 screen it beeps once and data error reading send me to the dos mode with this message "Data error reading drive c: Abort,Retry,Fail?" flashing out on to my monitor? When I try to run the windows with the safe mode it flashes another message saying that "An extended memory manager had been installed" "XMS driver not found" Can anybody help me out with this problem? Reply With Quote March 6th, 2001,04:34 PM #2 NEM1S1S View Profile View Forum Posts Virtual PC Specialist!!! Join Date Oct 2000 Location Australia Posts 2,146 start from fresh with a clean install. you could spend hours troubleshooting the problem. backup your work via DOS and then install Win98 from fresh. Reply With Quote March 6th, 2001,05:18 PM #3 nitin_fine View Profile View Forum Posts Virtual Med Student Join Date Mar 2001 Location India Posts 23 Originally posted by NEM1S1S: start from fresh with a clean install. you could spend hours troubleshooting the problem. backup your work via DOS and then install Win98 from fresh. Thanks NEM1S1S for your reply but i wanna want to know that what will happen to my data and to all the other programs which are there on my system.I also want to tell you that i have 4 partition on my disk and if i reload windows98 after deleting the one which is present then is there any po