tl;dr Need help getting by disk read error message without the use of my OS disc if possible
So I was hit with a message on startup that was completely new to me. Instead of being greeted with the usual Windows logo, I was greeted with "A disk read error occurred. Press ctrl + alt + del to restart." Long story short(er), I stressfully went through different potential solutions to bypass this message.
The first thing I did was to check my boot order in BIOS. Everything checked out there. My hdd was at the top as it should be.
The next thing I tried was to restore to defaults in BIOS, although I immediately set everything back to the way things were after resetting them, so that was most likely counter productive. That also failed, but it could have failed for the reason just stated.
I then tried booting up using my OS disc in the disc tray. This actually worked, but it ran very slowly. I suppose that is to be expected though.
With my hopes starting to return, what I did next was something I originally wanted to avoid. I opened up my pc and unplugged/plugged the sata cable back in (and into a different slot on the mobo for good measure). My hope was that I could boot straight from my hdd without the disc again. I was sorely mistaken. In fact, whatever it is I did caused it so that not even the disc in the disc tray could save me from the dreaded Disk Error message. I even tried different boot orders.
Lastly, I did finally manage to find a way to get to my desktop, but in a way that makes no sense to me. I have to make sure my disc drive is at the top of my boot order in BIOS, THEN go into my boot MENU and tell my pc to boot from my HDD. Any other way seems to fail.
Okay, so it was still a long story. I can be long winded on the internet like that.
Any idea what the heck is going on and how I can fix it? This issue just spontaneously started happening, and I haven't even had this HDD for more than one or two years.
So I was hit with a message on startup that was completely new to me. Instead of being greeted with the usual Windows logo, I was greeted with "A disk read error occurred. Press ctrl + alt + del to restart." Long story short(er), I stressfully went through different potential solutions to bypass this message.
The first thing I did was to check my boot order in BIOS. Everything checked out there. My hdd was at the top as it should be.
The next thing I tried was to restore to defaults in BIOS, although I immediately set everything back to the way things were after resetting them, so that was most likely counter productive. That also failed, but it could have failed for the reason just stated.
I then tried booting up using my OS disc in the disc tray. This actually worked, but it ran very slowly. I suppose that is to be expected though.
With my hopes starting to return, what I did next was something I originally wanted to avoid. I opened up my pc and unplugged/plugged the sata cable back in (and into a different slot on the mobo for good measure). My hope was that I could boot straight from my hdd without the disc again. I was sorely mistaken. In fact, whatever it is I did caused it so that not even the disc in the disc tray could save me from the dreaded Disk Error message. I even tried different boot orders.
Lastly, I did finally manage to find a way to get to my desktop, but in a way that makes no sense to me. I have to make sure my disc drive is at the top of my boot order in BIOS, THEN go into my boot MENU and tell my pc to boot from my HDD. Any other way seems to fail.
Okay, so it was still a long story. I can be long winded on the internet like that.
Any idea what the heck is going on and how I can fix it? This issue just spontaneously started happening, and I haven't even had this HDD for more than one or two years.
. But yeah. Instead of backing up, should I just migrate and if so, I'm not entirely sure how. I suppose I could just google, but the notion of new harddrives/solid state drives and moving data (especially operating systems) around between them has always intimidated me.
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