Computer crashed!

My other computer crashed a few months ago. It says "error reading disk" when I start it up, does that mean I need a new motherboard, hard drive.. what? lol

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

most likely a new board or drive. Likely the latter.

check the drive in another system.

 

Maybe if you have windows.. its reading the windows wrong.. or you got a virus....

 

this could happen under any OS and is more likely to be related to hardware or firmware.

that means

Apple OSX
anything BSD derived
anything *nix based
windows
solaris etc.

 

well, its not so much you need a new anything. if i get something like that, i always at least attempt to reformat. it'll fix 90% of most drive issues. might save you from having to go get a new harddrive. if you can't get it to reformat, then yeah. you need a new harddrive.

hope this helped in some way.

edit: windows is really fussy with this kind of stuff. if something isn't right in the slightest, i'll screw you over.

 

Yeah it won't even let me get to windows. It just shows a black screen that says "error reading disk drive", and then restarts itself only to do the same.

 

again, try the drive in another system.
and try another system's drive in it.

that would easy isolate the problem and then you act accordingly.

 

I'll try to find one of my old hard drives around, since I can't use this one. Then I'll let you guys know what happens. Thanks.

 

Try Safe Mode?

 

If you have a windows XP CD then try putting in the CD into the drive,
and booting from the CD
after that click Repair and it will fix that problem

I have had that problem on my computer and it got fixed for that Windows XP CD, and also it does not matter what type of version you have of windows and what type of version you got on the disc, all the versions come with the same repair function and work easily.

...try that and tell us what happens then

Zain

 

this happened to my bro

his whole comp just crapped out on him and this is one of the errors he got. he is actually able to use his HD as a slave but not as a master, but sometimes it corrupts his files, so he just got a new HD.

the reason that happened to my bro (im assuming) is because he bought a new video card, and installed it, but the PSU that came with his comp probably couldnt handle it, so his mobo shorted out which caused half the other things to stop working. it was a 3 y/o dell so thats y it crapped out on him ...ended up buying new mobo, CPU, RAM, HD, case, PSU...and yes his comp would restart on him too after his HD went on him.

im sure what zainu said would help though

 

if it can't read from the harddrive that won't do anything.