Re: "A Disk Read Error Occured" error source

From: "Eric Gisin" <ericgisin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:24:18 -0800

The message comes from the NTFS boot sector loader.

It can indicate incorrect CHS values passed to BIOS.
If it is not consistent, it means marginal bad sectors in NTLDR.

"Mr. Frazzlebottom" <Mr.Frazzlebottom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have encountered several times lately the boot-time error message "A
> Disk Read Error Occured".
>
> Does anyone know the source of this error, i.e. is it the BIOS, or is
> it the IDE's boot code?
>

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