Disc Read Error....Advice Needed please!

gonda

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Hey guys am having some serious probs with my comp, built it about a month ago and had no problems at all until the other day when upon booting windows failed to load and i received a message saying something about win32 file being corrupted or missing?!

So i rebooted and then received a message simply stating 'Disc read error' and asking me to reboot, now whenever i reboot it alternates between the two messages, have asked around at work (as i work in IT department) and the general consensus seems to be its the hard drive failing which was my first and worst thought!

Any help or advice from you guys would be great, bit of a newcomer to stuff failing on me!

Spec is as below;

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB)

Asrock ConroeXFire-eSATA2 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400C4 TwinX (2x512MB)

BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache

Sony AW-G170AB2 18x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler

Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU
 
Go into bios and change your boot order to boot from cd.
Boot from cdrom
Go into automated recovery
Repair windows installation

If that works and you can boot into windows from the hdd run a disk check by going into the dos prompt and type

dskchk c: /r

reboot

You may have a damaged hdd, if that is the case send it pack because once you have damaged sectors your drive has had it

good luck
 
cheers will have a go tonight and maybe post from that machine if all goes well! (not holding out much hope though :( )
 
I had exactly the same error last week with my 40gb samsung which i have had for like 2yrs.

I tried auto recov but that didnt work so i formatted and it ran ok for about a day. the following day the same error (windows file missing and disk read error) turned out the hdd was as good as dead- SMART failed on it and it had damaged sectors.
I had to replace it.

Hopefully yours should be ok
 
Backup. Backup. Backup. Backup. Backup. Backup.

Then get ready to buy a new hard disk. This time look at how well cooled it is. Install something like Smartfan (google for it) and monitor the hard drive temps. This same program will read into the SMART data and let you know what state it thinks the hard disk is in. This data is not perfect, but gives you plenty of hints of disks that are about to fail.

Many hi-spec self build PCs forget about cooling the hard drive. :)


Also buy a better branded PSU. If that "smartpower" came free with the case... I am not sure if I would really trust it with the rest of the kit you are using. :)
 
Well had it running all last night and all seems well, luckily havent lost any data from the problems as its a new comp and didnt have anything major stored on there! Will play around with smartfan tonight and see if all is well, wont be a happy boy if a new hard disk is dodgy!
 
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