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Hard Disk does not boot: Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart.

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by judge dredd04 1 view

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I bought a Seagate Drive a while ago for my PC.

I had to use a adapter since it was a SATA drive and my Motherboard only takes IDE.

Now it will no longer boot up and i get the following:

A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart"

My question is can i fix this or if not can i get some of the data at least from the dive?

Thank You

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by thumbsup2

If your computer does not have a SATA connection and you've had to use an adapter, chances are the power supply isn't strong enough to spin the drive up to speed before the drive seek kicks in. So, try this.....

After you've pressed the power button to turn on the computer, hold in the reset button for about 10 seconds and then release it. This will allow the drive to come up to speed before the drive seek of the BIOS takes over and looks for it.

If this works, consider replacing your power supply with a much stronger one.

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