"A disk read error occurred"

So yesterday, my computer was in sleep mode, working fine. I was vacuuming my room and I blew a circuit, no biggie, happens all the time, so I turn off the vacuum and lights, went down to the fuse box, and flipped the switch back. I haven't tried to use my computer until I finished vacuuming. Once...

I dont know if this is the right thread, but here goes. I try to start my Dell Inspiron 5010 laptop and I get "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl Alt Del to recover" Every page I've Googled about this error tells me my hard drive is shot and needs to be replaced. I'm in total denial...

Hello I have had this problem for few days, i tried everything i could think of. I suddenly got the message: "A disk read error occurred, press Alt+ctr+Del To restart" First, i restored the BIOS settings to default, didn't work. then i changed the HDD's cable, didn't work either. Then i...

Hello About 3 hours ago I installed Windows XP x86 on an empty partition. Before the install my partitions were like this: C: Windows7 D: Empty NTFS Partition E: Backups Partition I've installed XP many times before and I've never had this happen, but when the install finished, suddenly...

So I was finally able to reinstall Windows 7 Pro x64 on my uMBP. Don't know what I did to the previous install, but it was extremely slow at booting which was unacceptable. I was able to reinstall it today and get everything installed. It performed like a champ. Was very satisfied with everything....