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A couple days ago, for no good reason, I decided to update my computer's BIOS. Horrible mistake. The update went fine, but immediately afterward, Windows wouldn't boot. On the boot screen, right after "Verifying DMI," etc., I got a message: "A Disk Read Error Occurred: Press CTRL ALT DEL to...

Getting ready to reformat a hard drive on my desktop machine. I have two 80 gig disks. One has a slightly corrupt XP installation on it. I cannot access my admin account on it. (Tried tools that were out there to reset the password. No luck, it just is dead.) The main user account still works so...

Often at boot the computer is standing still on the boot screen and nothing happens for a few minutes. When I check the log file it lists 19 entries on startup with this error. In the micsosoft database this info is presented but it doesnt mention what might cause it or how serious it is. Its a...

Hi I have Windows 2000 Professional running on a desktop PC with a 3 ghz Intel 4 CPU, 512MB ram and a 100GB SATA hard-drive. Windows has crashed and now I cannot boot up. It won't work in safe mode or any other of the modes offered when I press F8 on boot-up. It gets as far as telling me it's...

This is probably an easy problem. I have a system which is just limping along, needs Windows and a bunch of stuff reinstalled (I'm running out of a small Linux partition). But I can't install anything that requires booting from the CD drive. I can read the CD drive, but supposedly bootable CDs...

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