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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,
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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
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me say that 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 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: 364.8k OTS 568 259 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 co
Smartphones More Software Memory Power Supplies Peripherals Displays Automotive PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>data error reading drive c:> data error reading drive c: Tags: Hard Drives Storage Last response: November 17, 2001 5:55 AM in Storage Share Squints November 13, 2001 9:40:07 PM This is what happened, please help!!! My computer froze while using Gamespy arcade, it then restarted itself. When it tried to boot up again it stopped in dos with https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/81760/data+error+reading+drive+c this error: data error reading drive C: (Abort,Retry, Fail) I can abort and it'll go to scan disk but it gets stuck on 15%. Is my hardrive shot or something? Anyone else have this problem? 1ghz AThlon msi 6380LE 266FSB MOBO 256DDR memory 20 gig WesternDigital HD or Maxtor? I dont remember.. RAdeon 64mbDDR Win 98 More about http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/37049-32-data-error-reading-drive : data error reading drive Anonymous a b G Storage November 14, 2001 3:50:56 AM i have a feeling ur HDD is dead..not too sure though camieabz November 14, 2001 10:04:52 AM Try booting up with a FDD boot disk, and run a scandisk from that. ~scribble~ :wink: Related resources Pre-built computer: having BSOD "kernal_data_inpage_error" and DMIpool - Forum How to fix data error reading hard drive - Forum Raid 1 error lost data (specific conditions) - Tech Support Hard drive error and freezing - Tech Support What is a spin retry error - Forum Can't find your answer ? Ask ! Get the answer Jake75 November 16, 2001 7:31:57 AM ...or...Boot with floppy and write: Sys c: then you will be able to boot from your harddrive, but I´m not sure if windows will work though, might be some files that have been corrupted when the incident occured. *** A *** CALV November 16, 2001 10:46:35 AM fdisk/format will sort it, unless of course the hdd i
title has the general effect of raising the hair on the back of your neck, then that's probably a sign that you are ready for this. (Updated 2/9/1999.) I was installing http://www.scrounge.org/badmorn.htm a Microsoft Mouse one of my Windows for Workgroups 3.11 computers. I plugged it in (while the power was turned off!), and booted up. I started Windows, and then File/Run a:setup.exe to install the new Microsoft Mouse drivers Install procedure went normally and it came time to reboot. This is normal, because there are new drivers to load all around. Re-boot progressed until it stopped with Error reading drive C: Abort, error reading Retry, Fail? Uh? Maybe the hard drive was just having trouble getting up to speed after the re-boot? Try again. Nope. Power off for ten seconds. Uhhhh. Nope. Uh, oh. OK, now it's time to dig out my emergency boot disk. Boot from it. Good. Now I can function. Finding Out What is Wrong Change drive to C:. Change to \DOS where SCANDISK is. Start SCANDISK. The FAT (File Allocation Table -- data error reading the overall directory structure) checks good. Do I want to do a surface scan? (To test all parts of the hard disk.) Yes. Bingo! SCANDISK had found honest-to-goodness bad clusters that were now being used by the new files that had been installed by the new mouse driver. Tell SCANDISK to repair the damage. The result of this repair is to mark the damaged sectors as bad, so that DOS (and Windows) won't attempt to ever use them. AND to copy the damaged data to a new location. By this time, of course, any file that SCANDISK detected that was in a bad cluster was indeed toast. (If it was a text file, you MIGHT be able to see some of it, but anything executable should not be run.) So I write down on paper all the files so that I can later decide what to do about them. OK. Several SCANDISK repair operations later I find that all the damaged files did belong to the new mouse driver. Apparently my hard disk had developed bad sectors that weren't detectable under normal usage UNTIL something was copied into those bad sectors. Hmmm. Well, no particular good will come from trying to boot now, because autoexec.bat will try to load the mouse driv