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.

dai

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swy327

Thank you for your reply. I forgot to mention, Im stuck on that screen.

if i press ctrl+alt+del, ummm the laptop restarts, and the same error appears. ive tried to reset the laptop and do it again and again, still nothing... do you think my laptop's harddrive is fried? its only 5months old

dai

it will still be under warranty your best course is to contact dell first as it sounds like it may be the drive