Posted by Bambino
my laptop, died during hibernating process. now it cannot restart, after bios there is a message
"a disk read error occured
press ctrl+alt+del to restart"
but it repeats after i restart my laptop, using recovery disk cannot help either, it states "media error / unrecognized"
i need help, no one i can get help in here, coz i'm work on remote island which far2 away from service center
Posted by scotsboyuk
@nokiamaniax
Have you attempted to use a different recover disk? How far beyond the BIOS does it let you get? Can you use F8 to activate the menu for Safe Mode?
Posted by Bambino
hmm.... here is my situations.
my laptop is toshiba sattelite a55 & the bios didn't let to be entered / modified. the only option avail when press f8 / f12 is only
-start multi os
-boot from recov disk
-boot from diskkette
-boot from network
-boot from pc cards
i can format my laptop but i will not! coz all my data, documents, pic, games stuck in it! now i online just using my o2 xda
Posted by Cycovision
I've got a nasty feeling that you're in deep trouble I'm afraid. That error often means that either the hard drive has failed altogether, it's lost the partition or it's lost the Master Boot Record. Either way, you need to get the hard drive out of the laptop and get it on an external hard drive reader to recover your data and attempt repairs.
Obviously, most people don't have a 2.5" external HDD reader handy so I think you'd be best to take your laptop in for repair. If possible, take it to a local shop and make it VERY clear that you want your data saving. If you send it off to a service centre or such like, they'll almost certainly just stick a new HDD in and not transfer your data over!
Of course it might not be that bad, It's dificult to diagnose faults in a forum but from experience, it certainly sounds like one of the above problems
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
something very similar happened to me last week, my mac wouldnt boot up, in the end it was the hd. What I did was buy a new one fit it then put my old one into the SPARE 2.5 housing I had lol and pluged it into usb after I booted on the os onto my new one, then used a program jools recomended, which worked a treat. Now I have all my data on my new hdd, and a spare 60gb mini exteranl hdd.
To stop this from happening again I bought a 250gb lacie hd off ebay for £72 inc del and partitioned it into 3 sectors, one genral use, back up and bootable sector in case my new hd fails. Good luck
Posted by Bambino
gee... yeah the best way is to get 2.5 usb hdd housing. oh my nearest city here either darwin or east timor. gee.. i need to pack my passport & pay visa 4 only getting hdd housing? damn! why i'm so unlucky!