Hard drive read error

[prakashseth]

i got a disk read error problem while trying to boot my computer

i dont know what could be the problem? please help me ,thank you in advance

[taher]

1 - Have you tried a different IDE cable?
If not give it a go and do a repair if needed again!

2 - You may have a corrupt MBR (master boot record)!! You will need to reformat and do Fdisk /mbr to delete the master boot record!! Save all data first as this will not allow you to access any of your data as all file location addresses are located in the MBR!!

3 - Your harddrive may have a bad sector get a zerofill tool(low level formatting tool)!! This will rewrite you HD's sectors putting them back to factory spec's!! Maxtors is called Maxblast you can get it from thier site!!

4 - or it could be a defective drive, but most read errors are due ot corrupt MBR or a bad sector!!

[aileen]

Does this happen before it boots into windows? Have you modified the bios in some way? Try going into the bios and resetting to defaults

[Muhammad Waqar]

make sure that the drive with the boot problem is the master. for this excercise remove your good drive or just uplug the power to it.

Insert your XP disk and boot from the disk
Select recovery console
follow the promts until you are in DOS
C:\windows
at the above prompts type FIXMBR

Why?
This will fix the Mater Boot Record for Windows it will ask you if you are sure and follow the prompts

once complete type CHKDSK /r
that is CHKDSK space /r
this will check the disk and repair any bad sectors

once complete type exit

system will reboot

Hope this helps