I experienced something similar. I started my computer last night, launched shareaza. stepped away for a moment and my computer is now stuck at the initial startup diagnostics screen with the following message
Disk Read Error
press Alt+Ctrl+Del to continue
I did this and the same thing starts. Did I fry my harddrive? I have an Iwill Mother board With a AMD Athlon XP 1800+ CPU, 80GB harddrive, running Norton 2003 Proffesional & Black Ice defender suite, I update my OS often Windows XP home edition (I bought a complete version with service pack 1 included) have latest security patches installed and updated Norton
almost daily. If you what may have happened please let me know, my e-mail is
First off someone will reply to this thread so remove your email address unless you don't mind spam. :wingsOriginally Posted by jadrians1971
I'd suggest getting into the bios and checking out the S.M.A.R.T report if your bios handles it. Look for min an average and see how well the drive stacks up.
Could just be an XP problem (as in the OS) or it could be a loose cable or the drive was defunk when you bought it.
How old is the drive? Was it used? Did you check molex + IDE cables?
If you can check out smart try an post the read/write an seek figures.
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You have the MSBLAST virus!!
I see msblaster viruses...
MAKE THE SWITCH TO LINUX!!
I also had a similar problem. Sometimes, when a cpu is installed that is uncompatable with the motherboard you have, windows will either misdiagnose the problem, sending you an error that does not exist, OR it simply shuts down without warning. this can also happen with other hardware components. Try making sure everything is compatable hardware-wise. if you still get the same problem, Tw33k may be right and you may have a virus. If this is the case you will have to reformat BOTH hard drives and start from scratch. BUT BE WARNED!!!--->> Some viruses can load themselves into the ram or bios on the motherboard!!!!! So when you re-do everything make SURE that you reset the motherboard and ram!!! (Ouch) msblaster is a B*tch.
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Hi, I have recently tried the patches etc for this problem and they didnt work, I even tried reloading my pc but the virus does not seem to get wiped. What is the best way to erase my whole hard drive completely, so that I do infact kill the stupid damn bug!!!
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