Kree8tif
Nov 5, 2008, 08:18 AM
While installing XP, the installation was down to 2 minutes left until completion when I left the room for a few minutes. When I returned, I had a black screen with a disk read error, Press ctrl+alt+del to restart. When I do that, it goes back to the same screen.
I rebooted with the XP disk, went into the recovery section and ran a chkdsk, which it found errors, so I ran fixboot. It said it fixed the boot sector. I ran chkdsk again and it found no errors that time. I rebooted, but still got the black screen with the disk read error message. I then attemptedto repair the Windows installation, but I still get the same thing.
I'm at a loss as to what to try next.
I rebooted with the XP disk, went into the recovery section and ran a chkdsk, which it found errors, so I ran fixboot. It said it fixed the boot sector. I ran chkdsk again and it found no errors that time. I rebooted, but still got the black screen with the disk read error message. I then attemptedto repair the Windows installation, but I still get the same thing.
I'm at a loss as to what to try next.