Re: disk read error

BillW50 wrote:
In news:4836c4dc$0$4098$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Barry Watzman typed on Fri, 23 May 2008 09:21:23 -0400:
josecrv wrote:
i have an IBM a22m and i formatted by hard disk as an enclosure and
then tried to do a fresh install of XP. but now when i try to
install XP from my CD, i keep getting this error

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

I have tried reformating with NTFS, chaging boot settings but nothing
seems to help.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

The read error more likely refers to the CD than to your hard drive.

Formatting in an enclosure often results in a different geometry that the laptop can't read. Format in the laptop itself. Then it should work either way. And Barry might still be right. :-)

Very true Bill. Although Barry might be right as you mention :-). Furthermore, trying to install Windows on a disk within an enclosure won't work either. Difficult to tell from the OP's post what he has actually been trying to do.

This is an opportunity from me to mention a great utility I just discovered when a quite recent 500G SATA disk developped some bad sectors after I transfered data on it via my network. Since I did not think probable they actually were physical bad sectors, I used HDD Regen > http://www.abstradrome.com/
after discovering it on Hiren's boot disk.

This is a slow (would certainly need several days to scan the whole disk, better narrow down the locations !) but very efficient utility which found my bad sectors and repaired then. NDD agreed they were OK! Well worth the $59 the day you end up with a hdd that refuses to be accessed ...

Regards
--
John Doue
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