i own a dell inspiron laptop went to reboot it now i get read disk error whats wrong how to fix it?

Question

i dont have reboot disc so i got to do it manually and now it just goes to a black screen that says
loading pbr for descriptor 2....done
a read disk error occured
and i have no disc in does anyone know what i have to do too fix this pile of junk lol

Answer 1

A disk error could be NUMEROUS things, not just a failed hard drive!!!! If you replace the hard drive and theres nothing wrong with it, you wasted your money and you lost all your data.



It could be that your bios is set to boot from another virtual disk. Check your bios. (this is unlikely because it failed at the pbr descriptor).



It could be your HD is fine and your MBR and partition table is jacked up from a virus or a crummy third part disk defrag program. PBR Descriptor 2 message is part of the normal boot process (directs the boot loader to Primary Boot Recond 2). Or the table points to the right place, but the boot record is corruupt. This is a good thing to check because MANY viruses attach the MBR and your system failed at loading pbr2. you might want to try a fixboot or a parallel install. Just google the terms and you will find instructions, it it too long to list here but EASY to do. Again, this is a common place for viruses to attack You could also try a fixmbr, but that might ruin the hhidden partitions.



It could be a virus ruined your os partition.



It could be just a few bad sectors in your partition, if so a scandisk or a chkdsk /r/f/p may help



It could be a bad mobo.



It could be a bad ESATA connector. or it might simply be misaligned. remove the screw slide your hd out then in again and PUT THE SCREW BACK IN. You can also try your drive in another computer or another drive in your computer.



It could be that the NTLOADER file is missing or corrupt. It could also be

NTDETECT.COM, BOOT.INI, BOOTSECT.DOS. If worse comes to worse, you can try a "parallel install" which would allow you to recover your data.





Your dell has a hardware dianostic partition on it. This will tell you for shure if it is a bad HD other bad hardware or simply a software issue.. Hit f12 at start up, choose diagnostics. Answer the questions and it will tell you if there is hardware problems. Ignore the optical drive part of the test. It tests reading and writing on a blank dvd drive and this is NOT part of your issue anyway so just skip or ignore that part.

Remember, dell has a hidden "return to factory image" partition if your HD is good and you backed up all your data. This is the only sure way to get rid of a virus.

The trouble with using both the hidden partitions is that if the pbr is jacked by a virus, it may prevent you from using them both. Watch what you download!

Answer 2

Simple answer, your hard drive is no longer readable. This could be as simple as the power is not present, or the connector came loose. This a laptop so that is not very likely, however, I did forget to replace the screw that holds the disk in place once on my Inspiron 8100 and the disk slid out far enough not to read. But is sounds like a failed disk.

If you do not have an OS disk to boot with to try and correct the disk configuration, you will have to bring it to someone that does (and has a spare disk available) to see if the disk is recoverable. Any disk in a laptop that is mobile will have a maximum lifespan of 4 years. As mine travels at least 40 weeks a year, I swap drives annually and keep the prior disk as an emergency restore (this had the bonus of increasing the base disk in my 6000 from 60Gig to 250Gig).

Answer 3

Your hard drive is a "disk" so that is why you get the disk read error - it can't read the hard drive. the only way to "possibly" fix it is with a Windows disc (or some other bootable disk) - no other way.



If you can get hold of one, there is a way to boot from it and to try scanning the drive to correct errors. the Windows CD can do it from the Recovery Console (XP) or the Command Prompt (Vista/7).



You may also try to get hold of Hiren's Boot CD with has many utilities on it. BE VERY CAREFUL if you use this, as you can blow out all your personal files if you don't know what you are doing. However, if you can get Hiren's, there is a good utility under Hard Drive Tools called HDD Regenerator that is simple and will check your drive for defects and attempt to fix it.



The short version:



There is a problem with your hard drive - most likely corrupted either physically (damaged) or by data written incorrectly to it. Without a disc of some sort to boot from (CD or USB flash drive) you won’t be able to fix it.



You can try to do a factory recovery (F11 at boot) but you may lose all your personal files and it still won't check for a defective drive.





@Annorax



************** SERIOUSLY?!?!? *************



"You're using the wrong terminology."



.....



WTF is a "system restoral disk"?!?!?



First off, it is System restore - not restoral. If you are going to be a dink and blast people for using the wrong terms - get it right yourself.



Second, it is not necessarily a restore disk that she needs/wants. A simple OS install disk will help, or many other bootable disks/utilities.



Third, how do losers like you with such lousy answers and comments get a "Top Contributor" badge? What a joke.

Answer 4

Hi,steffy



There are 3 step to repair reboot error



If you got reboot error then there is a 94% chance that your computer has registry problems. I think your computer is already very dangerous, and you should fix it immediately. There are many ways to fix reboot error, according to my experience, I think the following method is very good, you can go and try it. I hope it can help you:



* Step 1 - Download a reboot error repair tool,install this error repair tool.

* Step 2 - Click the Repair All Button.It will scan you pc for Free.

* Step 3 - Then click the Repair All Button again and your done! Enjoy it.



Here are the url of reboot error repair tool:http://www.FixError2010.com/ttfix-reboot_error-zz0001

Answer 5

You're using the wrong terminology.



Reboot means the same thing as restart. It doesn't mean "wipe the hard drive of all data and reinstall the operating system.



You're looking for a system restoral disk.



Anyway, the error that you're getting is saying that your hard drive, which IS a disk by the way, has probably failed.



Take the laptop in to a service center for someone that has a clue to fix this for you.

Answer 6

Looks like the OS is corrupt. Boot in safe mode and look for a restore point before the problem and reset to it

Answer 7

there is a problem with the hard drive. It may be going bad or could have been bumped while it was reading/writing.



you may be able to boot to a disc or boot to the diagnostics to try and scan/repair.



May need to replace the hard drive.