# "a disk reading error occured"

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-disk-reading-error-occured/180287>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [February 27, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-disk-reading-error-occured/180287 "2006-02-27T16:28:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![tpspoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@tpspoons](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tpspoons)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-disk-reading-error-occured/180287/1 "2006-02-27T16:28:05Z")

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hi.  
Well basicly my computer is having another spaz. Now, whenever i turn on my pc (not this one), it comes up with the error saying:

> a disk reading error occured  
> press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to restart  
> or something very similar…

i tried going into bios and chosing the “fail safe defaults”. That didnt work. I also tried leaving it off overnight.

i just found my windows installation disk. So i put it in, went into recovery and did a chkdsk, which is currently running. But it has been on 50% for about 15mins now (i think it might be stuck lol), so i decided to ask you guyz for help whilst i w8.

thanks in advanced!

background: yesterday i decided to clean up my pc, (i was running out of space), so i went through some old folders n deleted stuff. i came across a movie file with a really weird name. so i opened it, and my computer restarted. And ever since it has been coming up with that message.

Also i dont think its relavant (and i dont think i spelt relavant correctly either), but when it was working, it couldnt recognise the second dvd drive. Thats never happened to me b4.

Thanks again!

note: im not very good with pcs - just thought u should know.  
also i really dont want to reinstall windows - again.