help!! "Disk read error"?

[WillieEvercome]

I just built a new computer and I installed the master HD from my other computer. When I boot up it detects the HD but says "disk read error" press ctrl + alt + del. Can someone please help me? I tried using two different HD's (maxtor 80gb 8mb and a WD SE 100gb) both have Win XP pro installed on them and both give the same error. Please help thanks. PM or replies are sooo appreciated.

 

[WillieEvercome]

bump

 

[BmXStuD]

what does it mean when ppl say BUMP in forums?

 

[Alphazero]

Make sure that the disk is properly connected, jumpers set, etc. If that doesn't work, check whether the disk still works in the other computer.

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: BmXStuDer
what does it mean when ppl say BUMP in forums?

?!


BWAHAHAHAH!

ok, bump is the same as ttt. Does that help?

 

[Shockwave]

Does it give the error before loading the OS? I doubt this is your problem, but for me.
Win2K wont load from my RAID ATA/133 controllers until i install the RAID drivers. So maybe thats your problem.

Otherwise, check jumpers and cable orionetations and whatnot.

 

[Jojo1971]

you got to reinstall winxp if youre going to transfer the harddrive into another setup....ive experienced that several times....

 

[sharkeeper]

what does it mean when ppl say BUMP in forums?

It means they have a bump on their head from banging it on the desk!

Sorry, couldn't resist. The amount of traffic (posts) is great enough here that a thread will drop very quickly. When someone wants it near the top, they reply with BUMP in the text area just to bump the topic to the top of the list.


As for the original post, it sounds like your disk has a corrupt boot partition. Make sure both disks are jumpered correctly and on the proper cable positions. (outer=master) Also make sure the bios has the correct mode (LBA/LARGE/NORMAL/AUTO) best set to AUTO.

Cheers!

 

[WillieEvercome]

All of the jumpers are set correctly as are all of the cables, I know this is not the problem. Someone mentioned something about the fixing the master boot record?

 

[WillieEvercome]

It's also giving me errors when I try to use my win xp pro bootable cd after all the drivers have loaded. The drive works perfectly in my other computer when I switch over, I am able to swap data back and forth. please help

 

[WhoDeeny]

welcome to what happens when you try swapping somwthing over with our doing at least a clean install of the OS. I go a bit farther and format the HD. Even if you do get this to work with doing the aforementioned steps, I promise nothing will ever work right until you finally breakdown and do it...

PS This is from personal experience...

 

[WillieEvercome]

I formatted the HD to NTFS after transferring everything over to another HD. As the Win XP pro CD is loading it will occasionally pause at a driver and just completely stop. The CD drives do work. I pulled one from the other computer and I have a brand new Lite On 52x CDRW and it gets the same thing. Sometimes it does fully load all the drivers and after opting for a clean install it bluescreens me and says it has detected an error recommends that i disable caching and shadowing ( which i did) and requires a restart. I used Clone CD to duplicate the CD and it gives the duplicate the same problems. I have used this CD install Win XP pro on 3 other computers and had no problems whatsoever. I have used this CD to install Win XP pro on this very same HD in another rig with no problem. The jumpers are not the problem, it is set to cable select, and I had no problem installing the OS on my other rig with it in slave and in master mode. I have been working on this for 12 hrs now and I am getting really pissed. The HD does work, it works fine, the CD drives are fine, the cables are right I have quintuple checked them, the mobo is detecting them, the jumpers are set correctly too. Do you think opening up my other WD SE and trying that would work? Could it be the mobo? (MSI KT333 Ultra 2 )
I know someone can help me please!!!

 

[WhoDeeny]

Do not install the OS on another machine. Get all your valuable info off of tghe hard rive in question. F-disk the mofo and let Win XP take care of everything else. This is a time proven method for me when absolutely nothing will work

 

[WillieEvercome]

I got it to work I reset the Bios back to default settings and it allowed me to install win xp. Hoohray!