Windows 10: Unable to get to Windows sometimes, Hard Disk Read Error.

Discus and support Unable to get to Windows sometimes, Hard Disk Read Error. in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hi, since about a week ago, I started having this problem upon boot, "Hard Disk read error, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete" to restart. [img] I firstly... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by ZeroTwo, Feb 12, 2018.

  1. ZeroTwo Win User

    Unable to get to Windows sometimes, Hard Disk Read Error.


    Hi, since about a week ago, I started having this problem upon boot,
    "Hard Disk read error, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete" to restart.

    Unable to get to Windows sometimes, Hard Disk Read Error. [​IMG]

    I firstly checked my SSD which I use for installing windows. It has a perfect 100% Health as shown by HDSentinel. I changed the ports to which it was connected, also tried changing the cables. But the problem won't go away. Could it be that one of my three Hard disks is giving this error instead? They too have 100% Health but they are a bit slow compared to their original performance.

    I have contacted my SSD seller and has agreed for replacement since it still is under warranty. But I still have doubts that my SSD is the problem because its fairly new and has perfect health.

    Please take a look at my HDD's as well, I don't know why my Disk 2 is marked as System/Primary partition while Disk 0 is the drive where Windows is installed. If there's anything wrong here, I would like to know how to fix it as well w/o losing data if possible. Thank you very much.

    Unable to get to Windows sometimes, Hard Disk Read Error. [​IMG]


    :)
     
    ZeroTwo, Feb 12, 2018
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  2. "boot device not found" and "access media {FAIL}" on black screen

    The problem is, I am not able to even get passed the error message. I am unable to download anything on my laptop. The error is "boot device not found, please install an operating system on your hard disk, hard disk (3F0), F2 system diagnostics. When I
    run the hard disk diag, they both pass. There is no other screen I can access other than this.
     
    JamiePenny, Feb 12, 2018
    #2
  3. user_zero Win User
    Creating Recovery Drive Hangs and Fails at "copying system"

    Just upgraded to windows 10 from windows 7.

    I'm trying to create a recovery disk.

    Initially, the process would fail outright with the error: "Can't create the disk"

    after doing some reading, I reset the PC and re-ran the process.

    Now the process prompts for a USB stick that is at least 8gb.

    I've run the process several times with several different USB drives, but the recovery disk creation always fails at the "Copying system" part of "creating the recovery drive". Sometimes I get an error that the USB drive is bad, sometimes I just get the
    generic error "cant create the disk"

    I need to make the disk so that I can swap out my hdd with an ssd - that was my initial goal, but I don't have an OEM recovery disk for windows 7.

    Any help in getting this thing to work would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks in advance,

    Chris
     
    user_zero, Feb 12, 2018
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  4. essenbe Win User

    Unable to get to Windows sometimes, Hard Disk Read Error.

    Your OS partition and system drive are on different hard drives. Drive 0 is your OS or C partition, Disk 2 is listed as your 'System' disk. Do you have 2 OS on that computer?
     
    essenbe, Feb 12, 2018
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  5. ZeroTwo Win User
    That confused me as well and I don't know why as I mentioned. Disk 2 has no OS in it.
     
    ZeroTwo, Feb 12, 2018
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  6. Samuria Win User
    The whole thing is strange we can't see it all the screen needs to be bigger but c is a logical partition not a primary so you can't boot it. You have others as logical as well why is it set that way?
     
    Samuria, Feb 12, 2018
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  7. ZeroTwo Win User
    I have never used that drive (Disk 2) to install OS as far as I can remember (that HDD is pretty old btw). I have no idea why it was set as Primary drive although it contains no OS, I previously used Disk 1 for installing OS but I got a new SSD where it is now currently installed. That's pretty much all I can tell.

    Maybe the flag for "Hey! The OS is here" is contained by Disk 1 but all the actual windows files are located in Drive 0 (a.k.a Drive C). I don't know what I'm saying XD
     
    ZeroTwo, Apr 5, 2018
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