swy327

Hello. I own a Dell Inspiron 1526 laptop. Recently I downloaded lots of

movies from my friend's portable hard drive. And he did mention, that it

had a virus. But, my laptops been fine, then I installed GTA san adreas lol,

retail CD, and I played it frequently. I had lots of crashes while playing it,

but today, it froze, and I couldnt even do cntrl+alt+del, to open task

manager (usually i pressed end program, because it wasnt responding).

It just froze, so i just pressed the shutdown button. Got back after awhile,

and this stupid message, says: A disk read error occured, press ctrl+alt+del

to restart. I press it, but the same message pops up again, over and over

again.

Could it be the virus? or, is my HD screwed. My laptop is only like 6 months old.

Please , someone help me... I dont mind reinstalling it, but I would like to keep my pictures, and some documents.

Thank you for reading.