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Laptop ready to die? HELP!? - redsparrow226 I came home last night and my laptop computer said, "A disk read error has occured. Press ctrl+alt+del to restart." It didn't restart properly until I changed the boot order to Hard drive first. I did a virus scan and used spy sweeper and came up with nothing. Is this a sign that my computer has about had it or could there be some other problem? Thanks!

Best Answer: Hi, please do this, reboot your system and press F8 as it boots up this should take you into safe mode, then just select "start on last know good configuration" and your system should start up. then do this download and run CCleaner this will safely delete all your temp files etc for you, then reboot back into safe mode again and defrag your hard drive to get all your free space back again, i think your system is full of rubbish and windows can run correctly. this should help you. link http://www.ccleaner.com/ - william k

I like to go with easy fixes first, it saves time and money if the easy stuff is the problem. If you changed the boot order to hard drive first and it worked, it doesn't seem that the hard drive is the problem. Look to see if you have a cd in (and floppy if you have that drive). If you do, take it out and try to restart again. When I don't want people messing with my pc, I put a floppy in the drive (my boot order is floppy first) and when my computer illiterate family tries to start the PC it gives an error and they don't know why LOL Yeah I'm mean sometimes. Also, get one of those CD lens cleaner disks and run it in your CD try, it may be that too I'm just grasping at straws here :) Hope it helped - OceanStarr

Nope! Sometimes computers do that. What happened is it tried to start up using your CD drive, and unless that's an operating system disk (or similar), it generally won't work. Sometimes it just won't turn on in that case. I would have suggested changing the boot order, but you already did that. Good job. If it still won't turn on after that, then you've got problems. =) - Steven C

Yes. It could be your hard drive failing. Back up your data immediately!!! If problem happens again it may be time for service. - Jesse R

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