HELP, New SATA hard drive "A Disk Read Error has occurred, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

MeepsterNotchy · Sep 18, 2016

Old:
http://imgur.com/37F7VqF
The hard drive only has a recovery partition

Current:
This drive is replacing an old one.

EDIT: I have reformatted the drive, installed Windows XP (yes it's old, not main rig), and when it rebooted after the installation, I now get
"A Disk Read Error has occurred,
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

Chkdsk found no errors, SMART says it's OK, and "fixmbr" did not correct the problem
ALSO I have installed Windows from the disc I used on someone's laptop recently, and it worked fine, so the installation media is most likely not the problem.

Colif · Sep 18, 2016

can't say I ever seen that response before.

Is hdd only meant to have a recovery partition or has windows gone awol?

What version of windows was on it?

MeepsterNotchy · Sep 18, 2016

Colif :

The Windows partition got erased, and it was Windows XP.

Colif · Sep 18, 2016

Why keep the recovery partition if you erased the system? Need to delete them all and start again, I expect.

I haven't used XP in over 10 years now

MeepsterNotchy · Sep 18, 2016

Colif :

I reformatted the drive and used 8K allocation sectors, reinstalled XP (this is not main rig, would have installed antivirus if installation worked) and after the installation it rebooted, and...
"A Disk Read error occurred
Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart"
I tried chkdsk from another system but no errors.
I rebuilt the MBR but to no avail.
This is the reason why I replaced the old hard drive on the first place!
I'm getting quite flustered at this point.

Colif · Sep 18, 2016

Is this a new drive or just a replacement?

did you run chkdsk c: r/

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disk-read-error-occurred-message-how-do-i-fix-this

some more suggestions: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/help-a-disk-read-error-occurred-press-ctrlaltdelete-to-restart/

MeepsterNotchy · Sep 18, 2016

Colif :

This is a new drive, and it passed thorough testing before getting used. Chkdsk /f from another computer found nothing.

Colif · Sep 18, 2016

Try the solutions in the other link, it has to be something to do with rest of PC since a new drive is unlikely to behave same was as old one.

Did you check the hdd it replaced was actually at fault?

MeepsterNotchy · Sep 18, 2016

Colif :

Well, that old hard drive kept overwriting partitions! Crazy thing it was...
I had searched around the web in multiple forums and articles, but none had the same situation as I, and the fixes didn't work, not to mention most of their drives were PATA.

Colif · Sep 18, 2016

That sounds pretty terminal. C drive in my last PC was losing space, i never thought to run chkdsk on it, it was pretty clear it was dying.I had to delete a partition on drive to keep it from filling up all the time. It wasn't getting filled with files though, just losing space.

hdd isn't problem, check the cables or the ram or the bios settings. Wonder if it needs a new CMOS battery as it could be the BIOS is forgetting the boot order.

MeepsterNotchy · Sep 18, 2016

Colif :

I've tried 3 SATA cables and different ports. I replaced the CMOS battery and some capacitors a few months ago.

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