A Disk Read Error Occurred

aim1crzy · 08-15-2005, 07:12 AM

i took both my hard drives, my cd/rw, dvd drive, and floppy drive out of my old pc. put all of it into my new pc, and i get this message: a disk read error occurred. press ctrl+alt+del to restart. it wouldn't even go through the post.
so i took everything out of the new pc, put it back into my old pc and it booted up just fine.
i took a hard drive, cd-rom drive and a floppy drive i had laying around the house, put all that into my new pc, damn thing booted just fine. so if anyone has any suggests please email me at wrongway99amr@yahoo.com
thanks

dai · 08-17-2005, 01:11 PM

check the jumpers are set correctley
master on the end of the cable slave in the middle

aim1crzy · 08-20-2005, 08:37 AM

when i put my two western digital hard drives into my new pc, i get this error message: a disk read error occurred, press+atl+del to restart. yet i put in an ibm drive into the new pc and it worked just fine. i put the two western hard drives back into my current and it works just fine. so any suggestions would be great. thanks

aim1crzy · 08-20-2005, 08:41 AM

yeah i have done that twice already. grrr! its starting to piss me off lol

**Terrister** · 08-20-2005, 09:03 AM

Are you trying to boot your new pc with the hard drive and XP from the old computer?

aim1crzy · 08-20-2005, 09:31 AM

yes my current hard drive has xp on it. and yes that's the drive i'm trying to put into my new pc. the bios will see the drives, but i keep getting that error message. thanks for your help

08-20-2005, 11:18 AM

whats your new motherboard ? what is the old one ? Are these WD harddrives formatted ? Do you have any kind of raid controllers on eighter computers?

dai · 08-20-2005, 01:13 PM

try running a repair installation on it,it is looking for the old m/b and not finding it so it stops

08-15-2005, 07:12 AM	#1 (permalink)
aim1crzy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Detroit Posts: 94 OS: xp	A Disk Read Error Occurred i took both my hard drives, my cd/rw, dvd drive, and floppy drive out of my old pc. put all of it into my new pc, and i get this message: a disk read error occurred. press ctrl+alt+del to restart. it wouldn't even go through the post. so i took everything out of the new pc, put it back into my old pc and it booted up just fine. i took a hard drive, cd-rom drive and a floppy drive i had laying around the house, put all that into my new pc, damn thing booted just fine. so if anyone has any suggests please email me at wrongway99amr@yahoo.com thanks

08-17-2005, 01:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,592 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	check the jumpers are set correctley master on the end of the cable slave in the middle __________________

08-20-2005, 08:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
aim1crzy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Detroit Posts: 94 OS: xp	A Disk Read Error Occurred when i put my two western digital hard drives into my new pc, i get this error message: a disk read error occurred, press+atl+del to restart. yet i put in an ibm drive into the new pc and it worked just fine. i put the two western hard drives back into my current and it works just fine. so any suggestions would be great. thanks

08-20-2005, 09:03 AM	#5 (permalink)
Terrister Moderator Hardware Forum Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: West Georgia, USA Posts: 7,098 OS: Xp	Are you trying to boot your new pc with the hard drive and XP from the old computer? __________________

08-20-2005, 01:13 PM	#8 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,592 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	try running a repair installation on it,it is looking for the old m/b and not finding it so it stops __________________

08-20-2005, 08:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
aim1crzy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Detroit Posts: 94 OS: xp	yeah i have done that twice already. grrr! its starting to piss me off lol

08-20-2005, 09:31 AM	#6 (permalink)
aim1crzy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Detroit Posts: 94 OS: xp	yes my current hard drive has xp on it. and yes that's the drive i'm trying to put into my new pc. the bios will see the drives, but i keep getting that error message. thanks for your help

08-20-2005, 11:18 AM	#7 (permalink)
PurpleSky Guest Posts: n/a OS:	whats your new motherboard ? what is the old one ? Are these WD harddrives formatted ? Do you have any kind of raid controllers on eighter computers?