Disk read error?

[daves2]

E-machine computer - As I was using it, the program I was running stopped, the pc then crashed and restarted itself, before it could start up, it said "Disk Read Error has Occurred" is this a problem with my hard drive?

[bryony]

Could be your Hard Drive have u got a spare lying around to test your PC with that one??

 

But then again E-machines are a BAD BAD annoying things to have lol a friends e-machine just broke...we had to reformat the hard drive only thing to get it working agagin...pain in the butts they are

[daves2]

Unfortunately not, just trying to get peoples thoughts before I do anything, no point in spending loads of money to find out its not worth it!

[danzil]

when you first boot the pc.is the hard drive shown in there (bios)......make sure your bios is set to boot from hard drive....just in case its trying to boot from other means...

do you have another spare machine to put your hard drive into to back up your data,or see if it is at least found by windows....

disk read errors can be so many different things....make sure all cables inside are firmly in.....try a different IDE cable.also try running the pc with the hard drive connect to the IDE on its own....should be set to master....also if its still not found try changing the jumper on the hard drive to cs...(cable select).see what happens then.

give them a go then post back

regards

danzil.