Question by Rae: Windows 7 “Disk Read Error”?
I know this is fairly common, but none of the previous solutions have worked for me. The PC is an Acer Aspire 7741Z with Windows 7 Home Premium. When the PC is turned on it immediately says “A disk read error has occurred press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart. Obviously, that only does the same thing over and over. Alt f10 renders a similar error, “HDD recovery validation failed! Press any key to continue.”
Also, f8 does absolutely nothing! Nothing loads and nothing happens. I can go to f12, but it doesn’t seem to help either. It gives 4 options:
1. IDE 0: WDC WD1200BEVS-22USTO-(S1) – when run only goes right back to the disk error
2. IDE CD/DVD: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ890AS-(S
3. Network Boot: MBA v12.2.2 Slot 0200
both 1 & 2 render similar results – they both say “operating system not found”
f2 isn’t anymore helpful, it contains: “info”, “main”, “security”, “boot” and “exit” tabs, and I have tried all sorts of different options there. I have reset it all to defaults, changed the SATA mode, switched the boot orders… I don’t know what else to do.
I cannot get to the start menu, or anywhere to write anything in so I haven’t been able to try anything like that yet. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do to fix this problem?
I created a recovery CD, but it doesn’t do anything either, since everything seems to lead back to the disk read error.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance to everyone that helps!
~God bless!!!
Best answer:
Answer by justbovski
Take it to a computer store get them to fix it.
They will use something like hirens on it to determine what’s wrong with the HDD.
What do you think? Answer below!
This is a long shot, but with one Acer I used to have, I had to go into the bios and enable D2D recovery before I could use the Alt+F10 method for recovery.
There is a good chance that your hard drive has crashed. Take the computer to a qualified technician for service. If the computer is still under warranty call Acer for support.
Why do you insist that the computer is not telling you the truth about a “disc read error”
HDD’s fail all the time.
Being honest two of three computers that come through my door really do need a new HDD.
Life expectancy of a notebook HDD is ~3years.
Now would be a wonderful time to plonk down $ 50 for a shiny new Western Digital WD3200BEVT
drive which will be around twice as fast as your drive WAS on it’s best day
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007605%2050001306%20600003459&IsNodeId=1&name=SATA%203.0Gb%2fs
Because even if you run a windows installer on your current drive it will likely still have problems.
Likely your DATA on that drive is intact the error that stops the computer from running appears to be in the Boot or operating system portion of the disc, so it’s entirely possible your stuff is all still there.
When you buy a new drive also buy an empty USB SATA enclosure to put the old drive into so you can access it from your computer after you get it running on the new OS
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