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Acer, Asus or a custom build. We also provide an extensive Windows 7 tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks. Windows 7 Help Forums Windows 7 help and support Hardware & Devices » User Name Remember Me? Password Advanced Search Show Threads Show Posts Advanced Search Go to Page... Windows 7: A Disk Read Error Occurred (pretty sure it's not a faulty hard-drive) 03 Dec 2012 #1 wackydavo Windows 7 Pro x64 1 posts A Disk Read Error Occurred (pretty sure it's not a faulty hard-drive) Hello Everyone: Thank you for taking time to read my post. Here is my issue in as concise of terms as possible: 1. Computer is a Sony Vaio VGC-RC110G (not sure about motherboard) 2. About 3 weeks ago computer starts refusing to boot giving errors that make me think the hard drive is bad. Computer will still occasionally boot after 5-10 tries. 3. I bought a new hard drive and tried to create an image of the old drive onto the new using Clonezilla, the process gave a few errors. 4. The computer flatly refused to boot from the new drive (gave disk read errors). However, when I could boot using the old drive, I could get in and explore the image of the new drive and the image copy process seemed to have worked okay. 5. As part of the disk image copy process, my new drive had 2 partitions and about 900 megs of free space. The two partitions were the main windows partition from the old drive and the recovery partition. 6. I combined all partitions and formatted the new drive (using Gparted) because I thought that the disk image copy probably just recreated errors in the old drive onto the new. 7. After the format, my computer then consistently refused to boot from either drive. (in the past I could boot to the old drive after a couple of tries). The error was usually "a disk read error occurred' or "BOOTMGR is missing." 8. Attempts to install windows using windows install DVD failed because computer couldn't write to the new hard drive. 9. Both hard drives would usually appear in bios when I entered into it (I know at least one time where neither appeared in the bios), although sometimes computer would fail allow me to edit bios altogether. 10. I attached the new hard drive to a DIFFERENT COMPUTER and installed a clean version of windows 7 Ultimate
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