Ok guys I need your help with this one.
Issue: 2 out of 5 times this laptop is booted I get these 2 messages when it fails to boot, "Disk Read Error Occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Reboot" or "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key"
This is a friend's laptop that came to me with the 2nd error shown above. I told him I'd check it out. After several tries to boot I'd get the error about 4 out of 5 times, so I opened the laptop & connected the HDD on 2nd HDD slot but got the same error. After also trying the HDD externally on my own PC I concluded it was the HDD. Got him to buy new one and reimaged from a backup of the old one I managed to make the one time I got it to boot. I got some problems with new HDD 'cause I used Acronis TI & it didn't create the correct partitions for Win7Ult. Anyways, that new HDD seemed to get bad sectors after several tries to reimage so to go for the sure thing, given that imaging a new HDD larger than old one can give trouble, I installed new HDD with clean Win 7 Home Prem. Got some BSODs every now & then but figured it was missing drivers. After installing all drivers & applications from the Asus support site for this laptop & running some tests, the laptop runs stable & good but owner keeps getting the issues mentioned above.
Thank you in advance for any help you can give me guys, I'm frustrated with this one. I could only think the driver for the disk controller is still the wrong one or that the MB has some issue.
Thanks.
Issue: 2 out of 5 times this laptop is booted I get these 2 messages when it fails to boot, "Disk Read Error Occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Reboot" or "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key"
This is a friend's laptop that came to me with the 2nd error shown above. I told him I'd check it out. After several tries to boot I'd get the error about 4 out of 5 times, so I opened the laptop & connected the HDD on 2nd HDD slot but got the same error. After also trying the HDD externally on my own PC I concluded it was the HDD. Got him to buy new one and reimaged from a backup of the old one I managed to make the one time I got it to boot. I got some problems with new HDD 'cause I used Acronis TI & it didn't create the correct partitions for Win7Ult. Anyways, that new HDD seemed to get bad sectors after several tries to reimage so to go for the sure thing, given that imaging a new HDD larger than old one can give trouble, I installed new HDD with clean Win 7 Home Prem. Got some BSODs every now & then but figured it was missing drivers. After installing all drivers & applications from the Asus support site for this laptop & running some tests, the laptop runs stable & good but owner keeps getting the issues mentioned above.
Thank you in advance for any help you can give me guys, I'm frustrated with this one. I could only think the driver for the disk controller is still the wrong one or that the MB has some issue.
Thanks.
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