I have a toshiba laptop and all of the suden when it starts, it says "A Disk read error occured Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" How can i fix this?, my last resort its gonna b taking it to a tech guy, but they charge to much. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this. BTW when i press Ctrl + Alt + Del and it restarts and i get the same thing. THanks in advance
Well stop trying to hump your laptop man! hahahahaha thats too good to pass up! But seriously, when you say when it starts up do you mean as it boots? how far does it get before you get the error? Do you get to the XP loading screen? If you let it run for a bit do you get a clicking sound from your laptop specificaly the HDD? Do you have the recovery disk or a Windows XP (or what ever OS you are using?) disk? Try reinstalling XP. Disk Read Error is a hard drive issue. Either your OS is corrupted and it doesnt think you have an OS loaded or the HDD its self is going bad and it can't read from it. Next step, get an external HDD case and throw the HDD on another comp and see if you can access it. If you can and you can grab things off of it with out hearing a real audible clicking sound then its not the HDD itself. Its windows. If you cant read from the HDD then its HDD that needs replacing.
lol "dick" my bad it gets past that TOSHIBA (big red letters) and below it it says press F2 (something like that) next to it it says press c to run disc, i think, but idont get any XP Welcome screen nothing like that, i have the recovery discs, i jsut want to save some stuff that i have stored there.
Hey dude make sure your hardrives in correctly (could become loose as it is a laptop, happened with mine)
Try looking in your manual for instructions on how to wire a new HDD. When you find it, make sure all wires are connected properly.
Your OS is surely corrupted. Just reboot & press F2 and change the bootup priority to boot from CD-ROM. Then put your OS and just reformat. That's your best option. I just finished reformating my 2 laptops. One is an Acer & the other one is a HP. By the way don't forget your drivers that came with your laptop, you need those. Goodluck.
