I have a CPU running Windows XP Pro, the computer is a few years old and have had no problems with it (other than the usual). I was using the computer last night, without any issues, and I shutdown the system normally. This morning I started the computer and after the hardware was detected, I received this message 'A disk read error occurred. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart'. Of course restarting the computer does nothing but get me the message again.
I have another machine running Windows XP Pro, and I wanted to access the 'bad' hard drive so I set the jumpers to slave and connected it to the computer. The computer detects the secondary hard drive fine, when viewing in Windows Explorer the drive letter is set, but when I click on the drive to view the files, windows says 'this drive has not been formatted. Would you like to format the drive now?'
So I guess I have two questions:
Does anyone know some steps to fix the hard drive?
Can I get Windows Explorer to 'see' the files of the secondary hard drive?
Any help is appreciated
Thank you
I have another machine running Windows XP Pro, and I wanted to access the 'bad' hard drive so I set the jumpers to slave and connected it to the computer. The computer detects the secondary hard drive fine, when viewing in Windows Explorer the drive letter is set, but when I click on the drive to view the files, windows says 'this drive has not been formatted. Would you like to format the drive now?'
So I guess I have two questions:
Does anyone know some steps to fix the hard drive?
Can I get Windows Explorer to 'see' the files of the secondary hard drive?
Any help is appreciated
Thank you