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Old 04-23-2008, 08:50 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Disk read error[MOVED FROM WINDOWS]

Hie

My Desktop fujistu seimens, operationing sys installed is windows xp professional, when booting to reachs a point where it states:

verifying DMI Pool data.........

Boot from CD:

then after sometime time an error message disk read error ocurred

The computer is detecting the hard drive, the cdrom drive.

even if i press F8 to enter safe mode or instert windows setup disk to boot from it still read the same error. I wanted to try fixboot but could not have access to go to repair console using the windows setup disk.

i have tried to flash the cmos battery and remove for a while but no avail.
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Old 04-23-2008, 09:33 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Disk read error

Is the hard drive making any unusual noise?
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Old 04-23-2008, 11:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Disk read error[MOVED FROM WINDOWS]

no noise just quite
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Old 04-24-2008, 11:13 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Disk read error[MOVED FROM WINDOWS]

I have observe that the hard disk smarting thing is disabled, on this machine. How do i enable it. I fail to locate where i enable it in the setup menu or cmos setup, please assist me. thanks
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