Hello I currently have an issue with my laptop, when ever I try to turn it on it comes up with "disk read eror occured, press CTR, ALT, DEL to restart. When I tried restarting it keeps going back to the same page and says the same thing. My laptop does not have a disk port so I'm not sure what to do exactly. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
@AgentScreem might be able to help you with this. You may need a hard drive replacement though. I tripped over my laptop charging cord once and it fell off the table and landed on the floor, It then froze and showed pretty much the exact same message. This was a few years ago, but I needed a new hard drive. You may have shattered a disc or something.
Your hard drive is fried, happened to my laptop about 2 years ago. I highly recommend getting one of those hard drives that are more of a giant USB in your computer (I forget what they are called, lol) they are more expensive but they dont fry.
What laptop is it? What os? Any chance you can show screenshots with your phone? Try restarting your computer, once the screen shuts off, rapidly press f8. Using your arrow keys, select Safe Mode with Command Prompt and click enter. A command prompt windows should pop up. Type in "chkdsk /f /r C:" (without ") You can change "C:" to what ever drive you are wanting to check. chkdsk will check the disk, in this case, C: drive. /f will fix any errors. /r locates the disk you are going to check/fix.
If this does not work, then your hard drive is fried. My dad did this when my hard drive fried a couple years ago, nothing worked, so he got the hard drive replaced.
So, disk read errors are great. The best thing you can do is get your hands on an installation disk of the OS of your choice, Chuck it in the disk drive and re-installed the OS from scratch. Yes, it will get rid of everything and yes, it most likely will fix your issue. From my experience, this is usually caused by a few core files in the partition your OS resides in being corrupt. Good luck.
I wouldn't recommend having your entire OS on an external hard drive. Internal HDDs and SSDs are much more reliable in many different ways. External hard drives are more specialised as data storage units, so anything you download put on an external. Won't avoid these disk corruptions or fries, but will mean you don't lose everything you have on your PC. I like to live my online life off of external hard drives.
Woops, I thinkI meant an SSD. I used to know all this stuff, but my brain pushed it aside to make room for more useful things like statistics
Honestly, anything to do with computers, in general, is becoming more and more crucial. Stay technologically relevant and you'll do fine in life.
Computers are indeed the future, computerized airplanes, cars, boats, ETC. everything is being automated, no room for the common laborer anymore.
SSD Solid State Drive. I highly recommend getting one of those for your laptop. Windows will start up in 10 seconds.. Everything will be so quick. Plus if you drop an ssd it will be okay because it has no moving parts.