So, I woke up this morning took a shower and yada yada yada. Turned on my monitor, browsed for a few minutes and noticed that everything was running incredibly slow. So I figured, "Oh, I'll just reboot and everything should run fine." I was wrong. As it's booting, I get a "Disk Read Error. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart." So I changed the primary boot from my DVD drive to my HDD to see if that would change anything. Nope. Got nothing. I'm really not sure where to go from here. I've never come across anything like this before. I did a little searching and turned up a multitude of answers, and I'm really not sure what to do. If I need to reformat, is there any way for me to recover all of the data I'm losing?
H/A, I really need you guys to pull through for me. I've posted a couple topics here before and gotten lukewarm response. This time I'm desperate. A lot of the data on that drive is stuff like pictures, school documents, etc. that I haven't had the chance to back up because of a shot DVD drive and no funds to buy an external HDD.
tl;dr - I'm getting a "Disk Read Error", don't know what to do, really need help.
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It may be that the poor HDD is just old. You can try and reboot a few times to see if it manages to get through, like I've had to with one of my older computers.
Then start backing up all your stuff.
I also read in a few places that it may be the a number of things from the BR to a bad boot sector. So, I'm gonna go about trying to recover the 120 some gigs of data on there. I have a completely separate partition with all of my CDs backed up on it, so that's not a major loss. I'm just worried about recovering my pictures and school documents.
Thanks for the suggestions, duders. If anyone comes up with anything that might help me, send me a PM or reply here. I'll be checking back often when I can.
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