Re: "A Disk Read Error Occured" error source

Mr. Frazzlebottom <Mr.Frazzlebottom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
> Eric Gisin wrote

>> The message comes from the NTFS boot sector loader.

> Which is what I concluded, too. But at first I was
> not sure. (And mostly I was simply curious.)

You know what that did to the cat dont you ?

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

> By testing, and by threads on

> http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/19004/?o=0

> I have determined that the problem is most like with XP itself.

Very unlikely indeed.

> Why do I say that? Because XP installs, boot and operates as it
> usually does when I have XP use FAT32 on the drives. It is when I
> have XP use NTFS on the drives I see this error. This happens on two
> different drives, and two different boxes. FAT32 okay, NTFS error.

> But also, I am using a recent make (PC Chips) MOBO and
> older Seagate drives (Medalist, 6GB and 8GB). So, it is also
> quite possible that XP's NTFS implementation in combination
> with these old drives are not quite a good match in some manner.

Nope, I use it fine on drives even older than that.

> The PC Chips' Award BIOS settings are a bit minimal;
> I can only find a setting of "PCI IDE Busmaster" which
> might effect operation. I have it disabled.

Are the two boxes using the same PC Chips motherboard ?
If so, try flashing the motherboard with the latest bios.

> I wonder also what cable quality has to do with this.

Shouldnt have any effect. Cant see why that would only
affect a boot from an NTFS drive and not a FAT32 drive.


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