When my Computer starts up, it goes to a screen that says "Disk Read error press Cont Alt Del to restart"

Berpet

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Mar 13, 2013
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How can i fix my computer so it works again, it was running windows 7 and i don't have a backup disk or files. If i reinstalled windows 7 would it fix it? I don't have the disk but i can go buy one or something..
 

COLGeek

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This is typical of a computer that is trying to boot from a non-boot disk (select the desired boot device in your BIOS) OR when the boot drive has been corrupted due to virus, or damage to the drive itself (bad boot sector, for example).

Did anything change just before this started happening?