What to Do When You Meet Disk Read Error

Let's see the question below:

Recently, I got a message saying: “A disk read error has occurred, please press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart “after I rudely shut off the computer for the freezing problem. So I did the restarting, but the same message kept coming up over and over again. What’s going on here？Can anyone help?

Disk read error issue can be one of the most depressed errors you have ever met. It can be originating from a variety of computer problems, such as the corrupted or damaged HHD, the spyware changes or virus infection, the improper partitioning issues, or even the wrongly the computer system installation.

Therefore, sometimes, to fix this problem can be simple. Sometimes, to fix this problem can be suffering.

But, in my experience, this also can be an easy task. What you need to do is to follow my steps:

1. Back up your data

You are supposed to check whether you drive data is accessible now, for the disk read error always can cause unreadable data. If the data is reachable, you can directly back it up on a different drive before you fix everything. However, if the situations not so optimistic, you need a data recovery program to restore the damaged data before any action.

In all, to avoid losing your data in the fixing process, you should copy it on a safe drive.

2. Use the Error-checking tool

By using the Error-checking tool, you can clearly know whether it is caused by the damaged or corrupted drive.

1. Right click your drive and select “Properties”

2. Choose the “Tool” tab

3. Press “Check now”

At this point, I have to emphasize one more thing. The drive can be damaged or corrupted in two ways: logically or physically. The physical damage or corruption can be unrecoverable. You should take it to en expert for help. But the logical damage or corruption can be fine. You can only format it to make it workable after recovery your inner data with a file recovery tool.

3. Format and re-partition your drive

As your computer is attacked by some virus or sypware, you should clean the virus or spyware and format it. As you improperly partition your drive, you should format and then re-partition it.

4. Reinstall your computer system

If all of these ways mentioned above do not work out, you can try to reinstall the computer systems.