Please help!!!

[KShef]

When I boot my computer it says "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart."

When I press Ctrl, Alt, and Del it does it again. This is all it does.

It reads a Norton Ghost disk, but it reports an error there too.

Can anyone help?

 

[mrzeeedler]

crashed dude dont think you can do anything but reboot it with your os. What were you tweakin on it?

 

[killians45]

what was the norton ghost image kept on?

 

[Dante]

This may be obvious - but if there's a non-boot disk in the floppy drive - make sure you remove it!

 

[KShef]

Thanks for the replies.

I wasn't tweaking anything. I just came home from work and noticed it was shut down (it's usually running). I booted it and it gave me the "read error" message and has been doing that ever since. I think Mr. Zeeedler is right because we frequently check for viruses and defrag.

My brother-in-law guesses the hard drive is defective. I plan to try an OS reload. If this doesn't work, I guess he's right.

My Ghost image is on CDs. I think I've misplaced my 3.5-inch boot disk.

There was no non-boot disk in the drive when the problem occurred.

Thanks anyways, fellas. Anyone with suggestions please let me know.

 

[GameGURU]

Try to boot the latest version on norton from the norton disk, it is alot more in depth of a scan than the normal ones, you might have a virus.

 

[KShef]

Thanks fellas! Here's the latest....

So far, I've found that my main hard drive malfunctioned. I'm not sure whether or not a virus caused this, but I installed another hard drive and borrowed a Ghost boot disk from my brother-in-law (mine didn't work for some reason). From there I was able to use the Ghost image I saved to CD and so far I'm back to normal. I'm in the process of scanning my drives for viruses.

Thanks fellas.

 

[mrzeeedler]

awesome least you didnt lose it. I would back up your files and reboot if you can though, well if your computer has gotten slower