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Error "a disk read error occurred" on Windows XP

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Mar 15, 20269525 views
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Around a week ago I sometimes had trouble bringing up Windows XP profile (so it would boot into a temporary profile directory). I ran CHKDSK three days ago on boot and didn't find any bad blocks. Starting yesterday, my desktop (Windows XP SP3) became really weird. After I booted up it seems like so…

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