PC help please

[AutomodellistaGT]

when loading the bios on one machine, it says "boot from CD"

 

then says "disk read error: press CTL + ALT + DEL to restart"

 

any help?

[AutomodellistaGT]

ive told to boot from HDD but it still says disk read error

[Scotteh]

go into bios, choose the hdd as primary boot device and in the boot order make sure hdd is first and not the cd/dvd drive, if it still does it odds r ur windows is either fucked or ur hardware is lol

[Al]

If you don't mind me poaching I have a PC problem too, when i boot up all is as normal and desk top appears but sometimes when i then click internet explorer the homepage will not appear and the PC seems to be idle.I then press control Alt and delete to see what is running and notice the 'CPU' usage which shows 100% , why is this?? Any ideas? If i wait long enough the homepage does eventually appear? All is then well.The same happens if i click outlook express too. .Oh i'm running windows XP on an AMD 64 Athlon 3400+ with NTL Braod band 2meg connection.This only happens now and then, but always at the wrong time.

[Scotteh]

clear out ur temp internet folder, update windows to latest patches, run latest anti virus, make sure firewall is up and defrag ur drive. if ya still having probs post agen

[Al]

OK, how do i clearout my temp internet folders as i've never done this on this PC (1.5 years!!)

[Scotteh]

click on tools, then internet options, then clear temp folder assuming ur using XP and IE web browser

[Al]

click on tools, then internet options, then clear temp folder assuming ur using XP and IE web browser

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Ta, done that.

[AutomodellistaGT]

go into bios, choose the hdd as primary boot device and in the boot order make sure hdd is first and not the cd/dvd drive, if it still does it odds r ur windows is either fucked or ur hardware is lol

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done that scotteh

 

running win2k recovery console, just treid chkdsk and it got to 50% and said sorry its fooked

 

so ive run fixboot, and now running chkdsk again

 

if that doesnt work im trying fixmbr

 

anyway i can get into it to get some files off, make my life a lot easier. im not worried about saving the harddrive, as soon as i get the info off, im goign to wipe it