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Hard Drive Error
Name: Alexander Date: July 12, 2002 at 17:29:25 Pacific
Comment:
When I boot my computer, it says something like "Disk Read Error, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart." The computer is an HP Pavillion XT938. How do I correct this?
Name: peter Date: July 12, 2002 at 17:32:32 Pacific
Reply:
take the non bootable floppy out
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Response Number 2
Name: Maximus Date: July 12, 2002 at 18:55:58 Pacific
Reply:
"Take the non bootable floppy out" LOL
Umm give a little details. Your computer wasn't giving you this problem since you bought it, Was it?
That Disk Read Errors sounds like you need to run scan disk on that hard drive. You can do that with a windows 9x startup floppy. Or your hard drive a'in't good anymore.
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