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Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart Error Raymond Updated 4 years ago Windows 101 Comments When you have a problem while using your computer and you receive an error message during a crash, you're hoping the message a disk read error occurred windows 7 will point toward the cause and then it can be appropriately rectified. This doesn't always
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happen though and the message can be rather generic and the fix isn't exactly a straightforward affair with a clear place
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to start troubleshooting.Unfortunately, there seems to be many errors you could encounter on your system that sound straightforward but lead to the same problem, the error message isn't accurate enough for you to make a clear
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decision about what to do next. A while back I had a problem with my computer, and after some odd things happening such as a CD-R failing a burn and the computer starting to respond very slow, I decided to shut it down and leave it for a while. When I booted it up the next day, I got the error message:A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.However, the lỗi a disk read error occurred BIOS detected the hard drive just fine. After an exhaustive search around the Internet and forums, no one had the exact fix for this problem and there doesn't seem to be one fix to try in preference to any others.What makes this even worse is there are so many different ways to attempt to fix this error, it could take days to get through them all. And to make matters worse, a disk read error might not actually mean there's a problem with the hard drive itself! Also there seems to be just as many software causes as hardware causes.Listed below are some of the possible solutions we came across to fix the "A disk read error occurred. Press ctrl+alt+delete to restart" problem.1. Test the MemoryThis isn't actually mentioned that much around the web as a solution to the disk read error problem, but believe it or not, this was my problem. I used a tool called Memtest86+ and ran tests on my RAM, and indeed there were problems. After experimenting between different sticks and RAM slots I eventually deduced my RAM slot 2 was damaged because the sticks worked fine in the other slots.As this is a simple and non destructive test meaning you're not touching the hard drive risking further da
MetaFilter querying the hive mind Log In Sign Up MetaFilter AskMeFi FanFare Projects Music Jobs IRL MetaTalk More Best Of Podcast Chat Labs Search MetaFilter… Menu Home FAQ About Archives Tags Popular Random "Disk Read Error Occurred" - With Brand-New Hard Drive July 12, 2009 1:03 PM Subscribe Getting "Disk Read Error Occurred - Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart" with brand-new ATA-6 hard drive (this model) on a http://ask.metafilter.com/127224/Disk-Read-Error-Occurred-With-BrandNew-Hard-Drive five-year-old Dell Latitude D400 laptop. Bad disk, compatability issue, or doing something wrong? More details inside. I have a Dell Latitude D400 laptop which is about five years old and works well. My old hard drive went belly-up (terrible clicking noise, and no machine could read it), so I purchased a replacement. Being an older computer, my laptop uses what I believe is now generally referred to as a Parallel disk read ATA (PATA) connector (as shown on the right side here). A cover is placed over the pins before connecting it to the computer. I chose the largest PATA drive I could find, which on NewEgg is described as using an ATA-6 connector. (My understanding is that ATA-6 is a part of the PATA family.) I placed the disk in my system and began trying to install Windows XP Pro. disk read error The Windows installation CD recognized the drive, formatted it, and apparently copied some install files to the drive. (I have used the same install CD without any problems before.) However, as the installation proceeded, Windows apparently rebooted, and the system could no longer recognize the drive. That's when I got the dreaded "Disk Read Error Occurred - Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart" message. That's all the message says - nothing more. And pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del accomplishes nothing... you just get the same error again. To isolate the error, I tried three things: 1) I placed the hard drive in a six-year-old Dell Latitude D600 (which also works well, and also uses a PATA connector) but got the same error. 2) I put the drive back in the D400, and, using an Ubuntu Live CD (9.03), my computer was able to recognize the drive. I was even able to partition it and install Ubuntu on it. However, upon restarting, the computer was still unable to recognize the drive. I got some Linux-y error message (I failed to write it down), not the Ctrl+Alt+Del message, but it didn't make any difference - the boot process would not continue, even upon a restart. 3) I also tried putting the drive in a