Da_Jewish_Fonzy

I have been getting this message randomly the last few days aupon turning on my PC, "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". It says it before windows boots up in text at the top left corner of my display. Also performance has been periodically sluggish in windows, and when I try and play BF2 it will randomly crash to the desktop without any warning messages.

All this just started happening the past few days. I haven't installed any new hardware and I ran memtest86 to see if it was my RAM and it was all pass. I also defrag weekly and run spyware and anti virus scans weekly. I have had the vista transformation pack installed for the past 4 months perhaps its my windows. Otherwise I'm thinking my HDD. I reseated all all of the HDD cables and it didn't solve my dilema

Any ideas?

My pc all (6 months or so old):

win xp pro 32bit with Vista Transformation pack v5.5
320gb Seagate Barracuda SATA2 16mb buffer NCQ
Asrock 939dual-sata2
AMD X2 3800+ overclocked@2.5GHz
OCz Platimun RAM 2x1gb overclocked@212MHz
x1800xt @stock speeds
OCz modstream 450w psu

The cpu has been oc'd since purchase with no problems and it runs fairly cool.

tia

temeteus82

Run chkdsk on command prompt and see if there is errors.

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Da_Jewish_Fonzy

I will try that and report back, thank you.

CDsDontBurn

i'd put in my 2 cents, but nah.

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Judas

actually,

if you use the supplied windows disk (xp), boot from it,

then get to the part where it looks for a previous install, it should find something, hit R for Recovery console.. log in and then type this:

chkdsk /p /r

and let it work

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