CyberDuelX16
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CyberDuelX16
Hey! It's CyberDuelX16 here and i was wondering if anyone can help me with a computer problem that is slowly breaking me down piece by piece. Any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks, CyberDuelX16 (Also Known As Coal)
So about a month ago, when i tried to turn on my computer, after the HP Logo it displayed something from AMD with a whole wall of text and at the bottom it said: Hard Drive Failure Imminent! Please backup HDD Immediantly! or something like that. I didn't pay much attention at first so i just pressed [F2] to continue. Windows booted up just fine. So everyday i would just ignore the message and continue and everything would be ok. However, about 7 days ago firefox was freezing up and everything else on my computer froze up too (Even the task manager!) There was nothing i could do so i unplugged the computer. When i plugged it back in and tried to start it, i came across the same message. Ignoring it as always and pressing [F2] i figured everything would be fine. However, after pressing F2 all i got was a black screen i a little "_" on the top left that flashed every second. After waiting like this for about 5 minutes, i recieved a message saying:
"A Disk Read Error has Occurred! Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
After searching non-stop for DAYS, i found a solution telling me to change my boot order to prioritize my Hard Drive. So i went to BIOS and changed my Boot Order to HDD > CD and then disabled both the floppy and network boot orders (because i don't use them). After that, i restarted to see if it would work, and after pressing F2 Again it worked! Everything was fine except maybe a small slowdown in computer speed and the computer freezing for 20 - 60 seconds every few hours but nothing annoying. So life was normal again until NEXT day when a friend was over. Computer booted up fine but during one of the "Freeze" periods when i was in the bathroom but friend rapidly clicked around the computer thinking it would stop the freeze or just being a complete idiot (Don't really know, he's not really that bright with computers). So because of him, the computer froze and after 20 minutes of waiting i had no choice but to unplug the electricity (AGAIN). When i replugged and tried to boot up again i got the SAME error. ("A Disk Read Error has Occurred! Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart") I tried playing around with BIOS more but had no other luck. I'm not sure how i achieved it but after trying for about the 500th time to boot up it worked for a small bit and give me that screen you get after your computer unexpectedly shuts down, i chose start windows normally but at the windows loading section of the boot up, the bar froze after 20 - 30 seconds and would continue a small bit every now and again. Waited for 30 - 60 minutes with nothing happening, had no choice so i either Ctrl+Alt+Del'd or Just used the power button to turn off (forgot which). Next, i tried using the Repair Option, it loaded up just fine but in the process of repairing it froze too! also periodically moving forward a bit. After waiting around more, nothing happened so i unplugged and replugged. Again, I'm not sure how the hell i achieved it but i managed to even get through the windows loading section. However, after that i got BSOD'd (Blue Screen of Death). The screen had a whole lot of technicial mumbo jumbo and at the end it said it was cause by disk.sys | I tried looking that up and found thousands of posts by people with the same problem, however upon reading them all. Most threads had no answers and the ones that did were either unachievable by me or made no sense. There was this one that said i had to change something in my BIOS to RAID but there's nothing in my BIOS that even has the option to change to RAID. There was also this other one that said i had to install something onto my computer through a USB. No idea how I'm supposed to do that. So, after not seeing any other options i downloaded a windows installation disk (If your computer came with vista they don't give you one) and burned it onto a blank disk. Changed around BIOS so CD's would go first and booted up comp again with the Installation Disk inside. After pressing F2 the same thing came up with only a flashing "_" but after a while (seems like a random amount of time) a message appears saying something like "Press any key to start" or "Press any key to boot disc". By time i noticed this and tried to press a key nothing happened, i think it's because i didn't press for too long and it locked itself. So i restarted and waited for the message patiently. After only a while, the message appeared again and i hastily pressed the keys. It worked this time and i was over the moon! But my joy wouldn't last long. After entering the disk i found 2 options, seeing nothing that would help me i pressed F8 and it brought me to advanced options. Here's where it gets weird. I couldn't find a repair OR restore option on the disk! Tried starting in safe mode but with no luck, after trying to start on Safe mode w/ cmd i saw that it stopped loading on disk.sys and that's why my computer wouldn't boot (in safe mode anyway). Tried various other options in the disk with no luck at all. Also read another post which said something about installing Gateway or going to Gateway to buy/install something. It's (Obviously) most likely my HDD. However, i find it strange it's not working. The reason is because the message says: "Hard Drive Failure IMMINENT" which implies that it has no yet occurred. Also, after enabling another option in BIOS for a short while, The AMD message also displayed something on the lines of:
PSI Master: (Insert Text Here)
Slave: No Slave Detected
3rd Master (My Hard Drive): Status: Working, Failure Imminent!
As you see, all signs say it's working and unless my computer has gone utterly retarded it could very well be another problem.
None of the Checks or SMART Options work as they stop a few seconds after they begin either saying nothing or "Hard Drive Failure Imminent!". Even after searching through every bloddy page on google i found ZILCH ways to fix up the disk.sys error (not that it mattered anyway because the computer went back to square one (God knows HOW) and is now showing the same error as the first time: "A Disk Read Error Has Occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Please Help I'm utterly desperate! (Any Other Info Needed? Just say so!)
So about a month ago, when i tried to turn on my computer, after the HP Logo it displayed something from AMD with a whole wall of text and at the bottom it said: Hard Drive Failure Imminent! Please backup HDD Immediantly! or something like that. I didn't pay much attention at first so i just pressed [F2] to continue. Windows booted up just fine. So everyday i would just ignore the message and continue and everything would be ok. However, about 7 days ago firefox was freezing up and everything else on my computer froze up too (Even the task manager!) There was nothing i could do so i unplugged the computer. When i plugged it back in and tried to start it, i came across the same message. Ignoring it as always and pressing [F2] i figured everything would be fine. However, after pressing F2 all i got was a black screen i a little "_" on the top left that flashed every second. After waiting like this for about 5 minutes, i recieved a message saying:
"A Disk Read Error has Occurred! Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
After searching non-stop for DAYS, i found a solution telling me to change my boot order to prioritize my Hard Drive. So i went to BIOS and changed my Boot Order to HDD > CD and then disabled both the floppy and network boot orders (because i don't use them). After that, i restarted to see if it would work, and after pressing F2 Again it worked! Everything was fine except maybe a small slowdown in computer speed and the computer freezing for 20 - 60 seconds every few hours but nothing annoying. So life was normal again until NEXT day when a friend was over. Computer booted up fine but during one of the "Freeze" periods when i was in the bathroom but friend rapidly clicked around the computer thinking it would stop the freeze or just being a complete idiot (Don't really know, he's not really that bright with computers). So because of him, the computer froze and after 20 minutes of waiting i had no choice but to unplug the electricity (AGAIN). When i replugged and tried to boot up again i got the SAME error. ("A Disk Read Error has Occurred! Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart") I tried playing around with BIOS more but had no other luck. I'm not sure how i achieved it but after trying for about the 500th time to boot up it worked for a small bit and give me that screen you get after your computer unexpectedly shuts down, i chose start windows normally but at the windows loading section of the boot up, the bar froze after 20 - 30 seconds and would continue a small bit every now and again. Waited for 30 - 60 minutes with nothing happening, had no choice so i either Ctrl+Alt+Del'd or Just used the power button to turn off (forgot which). Next, i tried using the Repair Option, it loaded up just fine but in the process of repairing it froze too! also periodically moving forward a bit. After waiting around more, nothing happened so i unplugged and replugged. Again, I'm not sure how the hell i achieved it but i managed to even get through the windows loading section. However, after that i got BSOD'd (Blue Screen of Death). The screen had a whole lot of technicial mumbo jumbo and at the end it said it was cause by disk.sys | I tried looking that up and found thousands of posts by people with the same problem, however upon reading them all. Most threads had no answers and the ones that did were either unachievable by me or made no sense. There was this one that said i had to change something in my BIOS to RAID but there's nothing in my BIOS that even has the option to change to RAID. There was also this other one that said i had to install something onto my computer through a USB. No idea how I'm supposed to do that. So, after not seeing any other options i downloaded a windows installation disk (If your computer came with vista they don't give you one) and burned it onto a blank disk. Changed around BIOS so CD's would go first and booted up comp again with the Installation Disk inside. After pressing F2 the same thing came up with only a flashing "_" but after a while (seems like a random amount of time) a message appears saying something like "Press any key to start" or "Press any key to boot disc". By time i noticed this and tried to press a key nothing happened, i think it's because i didn't press for too long and it locked itself. So i restarted and waited for the message patiently. After only a while, the message appeared again and i hastily pressed the keys. It worked this time and i was over the moon! But my joy wouldn't last long. After entering the disk i found 2 options, seeing nothing that would help me i pressed F8 and it brought me to advanced options. Here's where it gets weird. I couldn't find a repair OR restore option on the disk! Tried starting in safe mode but with no luck, after trying to start on Safe mode w/ cmd i saw that it stopped loading on disk.sys and that's why my computer wouldn't boot (in safe mode anyway). Tried various other options in the disk with no luck at all. Also read another post which said something about installing Gateway or going to Gateway to buy/install something. It's (Obviously) most likely my HDD. However, i find it strange it's not working. The reason is because the message says: "Hard Drive Failure IMMINENT" which implies that it has no yet occurred. Also, after enabling another option in BIOS for a short while, The AMD message also displayed something on the lines of:
PSI Master: (Insert Text Here)
Slave: No Slave Detected
3rd Master (My Hard Drive): Status: Working, Failure Imminent!
As you see, all signs say it's working and unless my computer has gone utterly retarded it could very well be another problem.
None of the Checks or SMART Options work as they stop a few seconds after they begin either saying nothing or "Hard Drive Failure Imminent!". Even after searching through every bloddy page on google i found ZILCH ways to fix up the disk.sys error (not that it mattered anyway because the computer went back to square one (God knows HOW) and is now showing the same error as the first time: "A Disk Read Error Has Occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Please Help I'm utterly desperate! (Any Other Info Needed? Just say so!)
