a disk error has occured. . . press ctrl+alt+del to restart

the title says it all. My cousin's HP laptop is experiencing this. i can boot a windows 7 cd, but i should change the order first. CD drive then the main drive. 'coz when i put first the main drive, i can't boot the disk and disk error occured shows up. i am doing a start up repair now. i've...

After my Gateway LT280u loads the F2 and F12 screen a black screen Follows saying: "A Disk Read Error Occured Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" I have tried and tried again to get it to start. Will take any advice to try to fix Computer problem (It seems F8 doesn't work when pressed either)

I just got a brand new custom built pc. It had w7 home premium before on it, and ran fine. When I put my disc of w7 ultimate, it intsalled and on first boot, just crashed and showed " A disk read error has occured. Press ctrl alt delete to restart" I am frustrated, I tried formatting the...

Hey this is my first post on this forum. Recently, I formatted my hard drive because I wanted to start all over. Accually it was a partition from my hard drive. Next time I booted up and THE error A Disk read error occured pres crl ALT del to restart. CRL ALT DEL DOESN'T DO ANYTHING. So I booted...

Hi all, I have a big problem in that I am nolonger able to boot into Windows. My laptop is a slowly dying Acer 7520 Aspire with a 320GB Western Digital SATA drive. It was all working fine (apart from the few known hardware failures) until one day I booted it up to play descent and it hung on the...