A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

sonic1000 · Jul 12, 2016

I rebooted my PC after running chkdsk, but now I get a black screen with the message "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart." The hard drive is detected fine in bios.

I've tried booting into Windows Setup using a CD and running chkdsk and bootrec via a Command Prompt, but chkdsk says that the drive is RAW, and bootrec can't find a Windows Installation.

I also tried switching Sata ports and cables and nothing changed, it's a new drive that I got about a month ago.

wpgwpg · Jul 13, 2016

It sounds like that hard drive has bad sectors and has lost it's formatting. I hope you have a backup because it may be time to replace the hard drive.

Good luck.

sonic1000 · Jul 13, 2016

When I look at the drive using a partition manager or EasyRE, I can see how much space has been used, the files and folders that's on there, and the OS.

It also shows that the filesystem is NTFS.

Does that mean there's a way to recover any data?

If this helps, here's my S.M.A.R.T report: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxuw7m56Lj4CVGpvUEU3d2xYMzg

wpgwpg · Jul 13, 2016

That SMART data report you posted the link to didn't resemble anything I've ever seen before; from what I could discern, it was just a bunch of gobbledy beloved patriot about fonts. To try to recover your data there are two things you could do. First would be to download something like Linux Mint, burn it to a DVD and boot from it. That would give an operating system with a user interface similar to Windows where you could attempt to examine that drive and hopefully copy your data to a flash drive. You can download Linux Mint from here:
https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php .
The other way would be to remove that hard drive, put it a $20 enclosure, and plug it into a USB port on another computer.
When you've gotten your system back like you want it, I urge you to get yourself an external hard drive and a good 3rd party backup program. You can set it up to do everything automagically at the time and frequency of your choice. 1 TB external hard drives are about $55 these days and a really good FREE backup program is the Easeus Todo Backup Free. I've seen a lot of folks say they use Macurim Reflect which also has a free version. That can save you a lot of time and frustration the next time something like this happens. Sooner or later it happens to all computers for one reason or another.

Good luck.

sonic1000 · Jul 13, 2016

Thanks for the suggestions, I have a CD of Fedora, would that work?

Try this one: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxuw7m56Lj4CMkl5LW9mOVNuZHM

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