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Windows 7 - "A disk read error occured. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart"

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Problem: When I switch on my PC, after BIOS POST, a cursor is blinking for about 5 seconds and then I am getting this error message: A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart. I am able to go into BIOS. But Windows loader doesn't even start. This message is shown after my mother…

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Fix for: Windows 7 - "A disk read error occured. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart"

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This message is emitted by the Volume Boot Record of an NTFS volume formatted by Windows NT up to version 6.x. It isn't an MBR problem, because by the time that the error is generated, the MBR bootstrap code has successfully run, and loaded the VBR …

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