Hard drive problem

[aspirins]

Hi,

My computer crashed, and upon restart gave me the error message,:

"Disk read error occured. Press control+alt+delete to restart"

Pressed the buttons, restart takes me to same screen.

Tried inserting Windows disk, hit any key to boot from cd. Then all i get is blank screen. Put drive in another computer, can access it as a slave, ran chkdsk, all ran fine. Can access/move files.

Put back in other computer, will not boot, same error message.

Any ideas? Or do i just need to buy another one? (It's IDE drive, cable is fine).

Thanks

 

[meglamaniac]

Two possibilities that I can think of:

- The MBR or bootsector is damaged. If you can get it to boot off the CD (unlikely I know, you already tried) you can run the recovery console and type "fixboot" and "fixmbr" to rewrite them.

- Your BIOS boot settings could have been messed up somehow. Check that it's still set to boot off your harddrive etc, and that it's still recognising it.

 

[aspirins]

Ok, i'll try the second option...Though i'm fairly convinced the bios is finding the drive fine...

The first i've tried and failed numerous times, with the error i mentioned in my first post.


Thanks for help!