Re: disk read error

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John Doue typed on Sat, 24 May 2008 08:53:27 GMT:
BillW50 wrote:
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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 ...

Umm John... The technology doesn't exist yet for manufactures to produce an 100% error free hard disk. And back in the 80's with MFM hard drives, you could see all of the errors. Later when IDE came out, they had the hard drive circuits hide the errors so you couldn't see them anymore. They did this because people would return hard drives with errors on them.

Modern hard drives will still show errors. But only if there are lots of them. As the circuits will only hide so many and that is all and then you will start to see them. Errors on hard drives isn't necessarily a bad thing, only if new ones keep popping up is it a bad thing.

--
Bill

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