I have a Dell Inspiron 8200. I am running XP Pro. I tend to keep my computer on for long periods at a time. This isn’t the first time this sort of thing has happened but it is by far the worst looking…
My computer doesn’t boot up. I don’t think I head any hard drive noise at all – i might be mistaken – it is very quiet compared to how it normally sounds.
Anyway, I get a black screen saying: “A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart” This happens again when I restart. :-/
My Safe Mode doesn’t work – ie, nothing happens when I hit F8. 🙁
When I get into Recovery Console using my XP Pro cd and use Fixmbr the response is: “Writing new master boot record on physical drive \Device\Harddisk0\Partition0. The new master boot record could not be written. The disk may be damaged” ???
Chkdsk /P gives the response: “4% completed’
It then waits 5 mins and says: “The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems” :-[
Chkdsk /R gives the same response as Chkdsk /P :'(
When choosing the “Set up Windows option” from the cd i get: “an error occurred while Setup was updating partition information on: 38155 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR] Setup cannot continue.” >:(
Is my hard disk buggerred???
Do I need to reformat the whole thing?
Can I recover important, personal files etc once I format and reinstall windows?
Where can I get such a program?
Please help… 😮
