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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>Solution for "A disk read error occurred."> Closed Solution for "A disk read error occurred." Tags: Hard Drives Disk Read Error Storage Last response: 2 April 2011 22:05 in Storage Share pbarney 17 June 2009 22:13:43 This is one of the most frustrating error messages you can ever deal with. Sometimes the fix is simple, sometimes it's a complete pain. Having recently dealt with this again, I thought I'd post my thoughts in the hopes that it helps someone else out there. So you receive the dreaded "a disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Multiple restarts result in the same error message. If you put your drive into another computer, or connecting it as a slave on your own computer, it will typically work fine, and no data is missing. Because this error is not usually associated with data loss, DO NOT RE-PARTITION THE DRIVE. Your data is likely safe and sound. Here's how we'll recover your data. Try each step below, in order, and see if your drive becomes accessible after each step. In my experience, you won't start seeing results until step 5 or so. 1. Run CHKDSK /R /P from the recovery console (it will typically find no error) 2. run FIXBOOT from recovery console (typically has no result) 3. run FIXMBR from recovery console (typically has no result) 4. Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility, downloaded from their website (it will typically find no error) 5. Changing the drives from cable select to Master/Slave may fix it. 6. Replacing the data cable may fix it, but usually not. 7. Setting the BIOS to use defaults may fix it, but usually not. 8. Changing the BIOS drive settings from auto to user-specified, ensuring that LBA is selected may fix it. 9. Pulling the CMOS battery to let the BIOS lose it settings may work. At this point, you may be feeling some frustration. :-) If all that fails, here's what will usually work: Ghost your data to a new drive, and use the original one as a slave. It wil
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enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. Rangeley Level 1 (4 points) iOS Apps Q: Disk Utility Error 61 when attempting to create https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2730914?start=0&tstart=0 disk image on external driv I would like to make occasional archive backups of my three macintosh computers. I bought a new Western Digital 2TB drive for this purpose, and formatted it as Mac OS Extended. Trying to do a disk image backup using Disk Utility, I follow the directions: - Startup from an install DVD. - Start Disk Utilities and select "Restore" - Drag "Macintosh failed to HD" into the Source box - Click on "New Image" and select compressed and 128-bit AES encryptionThis leads to the error message: Unable to create "....." (error -61)I have enocountered this problem both with my iMac G5 and a MacBook, both running Leopard.Does anyone know what this error means, what I am doing wrong, and/or if there is another way to create disk image backups? Help! failed to create iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8) Posted on Jan 23, 2011 10:16 AM I have this question too by Kappy,Solvedanswer Kappy Level 10 (271,667 points) Desktops A: Using disc images to backup an entire drive is time consuming and risky. Disc images could fail to mount, become corrupted either during or after creation, and present many future problems. Much better and safer to simply clone the drive to a separate partition on your backup drive. Using software like Carbon Copy Cloner, for example, you can even incrementally backup any changes to the source drive (provided you have adequate space on the drive.)Error -61 is a write permissions error. Since this is a new drive I would recommend you re-prep the drive as follows:Drive Preparation1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partitio