A disk read error is very common; it usually occurs as soon as your computer boots up from SSD, HDD or another hard drive and has affected a large number of users of Windows 10/8/7/XP.
This error has the message "
A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" on the screen like the picture below:
This message indicates that your hard drive has a problem when the operating system attempts to read the disk. That is, the disk is preventing the computer from entering into its operating systems.
Simply put, a disk error could be caused by several reasons such as incorrect boot order, BIOS issue, IDE cables failure, incorrect MBR configuration, faulty hard drive, etc.
When meeting such an issue, no matter how many times you restart your computer by pressing "
Ctrl+Alt+Del" keys, this error still exists.
In the presence of this issue, it will still exist regardless of how many times you restart your computer by pressing "
Ctrl+Alt+Del". In fact, a disk read error is not a problem that can be solved by a simple restart. But don't worry, this post will tell you top seven useful solutions to a disk read error occurred SSD.
How to Fix Disk Read Error Windows XP/7/8/10
Solution 1: Boot OS from Hard Drive
If a disk error occurred, the first thing to do is to check whether the boot order is correct in BIOS.
There are different ways to get into BIOS in different computer models and operating systems. When turning on the computer, the first boot screen will usually show you what key to press to go into the BIOS.
You can refer to this guidance
How to Enter The BIOS On Your Computer. Once you are in BIOS, find the boot order section. In the boot order section, check to make sure the correct hard drive is placed as the first boot priority before any others in the listing.
Changing this setting might be enough to help your computer boot normally. If it is still unbootable, try the next solution to fix disk error occurred.
Solution 2: Reset or Upgrade BIOS
Resetting your computer BIOS to default or
upgrading to the latest version might be able to solve "A disk read error occurred" in Windows XP/7/8/10.
Here is the step-by-step guide to reset BIOS:
- Press a specific key (F2, F8, F12, Esc or Del) according to your computer model and OS to enter into BIOS.
- Find the option to reset BIOS to default.
Tip: The option name is different depending on different computer manufacturers and BIOS versions, which can be "Load BIOS Defaults", "Load Default Settings", "Load Fail-Safe Defaults", "Load Setup Default" or "Get Default Values". Choose one according to the real case, then save this change.
If the disk read error on boot up persists, try the following solution.
Solution 3: Repair Master Boot Record and Boot Sector
A corrupted or damaged Master Boot Record or boot sector could cause disk errors. Therefore, repairing the MBR or boot sector might be able to fix the issue"A disk read error occurred" with USB boot.
You can use a professional and reliable partition and disk management tool - MiniTool Partition Wizard - to repair your MBR in Windows XP/7/8/10.
As a dedicated partition manager, MiniTool Partition Wizard could be used for many operations such as resize/move/extend/copy/wipe partition, rebuild MBR, migrate OS to SSD/HD, copy disk, recover lost partition, perform data recovery, and so on.
Here we strongly recommend MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Ultimate Edition. This edition has a feature called "Bootable Media" based on Win-PE; it is designed to manage disks and partitions when the operating system fails to boot or when there is
no operating system.
Hello elix0411 and thank you for your quick answer. I didn't think none should answer my question so therefore I didn''t specified so mush of my problem I did try to ask someone at Lenovo forum but none replied. I have tried to tap F8 when is switsh it on but I cant get that menu that I can chose safe mode. But I copy in the whole story that I posted at Lenovo, try to read the whole story to understand my problem. Thank you in advance if someone can help me fix the problem.
A month ago I got this message " A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" and the HDD started to sound very much. I bought a new HDD of 80Gb instead of the old one that only had 6Gb. I choosed to install WXP instead of W2K that was on the machine from the beginning.
I started the installation and make a partition of 80Gb and tried to install install XP on that but that was not a good idea, because then I got this message "disk read error". I started to look around on this forum and found some info that the partition that I boot machine from should not be over 40Gb so I restarted the installation and format the disk again and created a partition of 30Gb and the installation went very good.
After that it has been running for a couple of weeks and I have done all updates and even put in SP3 and did a lot of restarts of the machine and everything has gone good. But suddenly after a simple change I wanted to do in which network I want the machine to be in and I had to restart it I got the same message again when it try to boot up.
I have tried with the XP CD and choosed the repair thing and got in and saw that the partition marked C: is still there and everything else looks OK. Do anyone know what the problem can be?
I also add that I have looked in the bios that I can get to by press F1 when I start the mashine everything looks ok and I have also run every test on the mashine there with no problems find. I also ran a diagnosis test I got from Western Digtal because the HDD is that brand and it didn't find any errors.
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