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ryan29121
08-15-08, 11:13 PM
My laptop needed a reformat so I inserted the disc and began the reformat like always. After the drive was formatted and then rebooted windows prompted me with a message "disk read error" ctrl+alt+delete to restart. I also tried this with 2 other OS discs i had for other computers. I checked making sure it was booting from hdd rather than the cd and still same error occurred. What would cause this error? Thanks in advance for your help.
ryan29121
08-16-08, 08:24 AM
please help
Wolfhound
08-16-08, 09:10 AM
Check your disk with some disk tool to see if it is working OK, you can use this bootable CD http://www.biosmedic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16 it has disk utilities for well known brands.
-=DVS=-
08-16-08, 11:38 AM
Did you delete partition + create new one and then slow format ? that should have worked.
ryan29121
08-16-08, 06:17 PM
yes i deleted old partition and created new one and did a "quick" format. The reason i did this one is because i tried the slow method and it stayed at 0% for an hour with no activity whereas the quick method only took about 15 minutes to complete the entire format. Do u have any other suggestions?
ViN86
08-16-08, 06:20 PM
try the slow format again. let it go overnight. let us know how it went.
Starscream
08-16-08, 08:46 PM
A quick format should not take 15 minutes, I think it's a very safe bet that the drive is failing and should just be replaced with a new one.
Bman212121
08-16-08, 10:12 PM
A quick format should not take 15 minutes, I think it's a very safe bet that the drive is failing and should just be replaced with a new one.

QFT. A quick format should take like 30 seconds, you can do a full format in 15 minutes.