I have mentioned the problems that I have been having with my laptop lately at http://lounge.windowssecrets.com/index.php?showtopic=779793. As mentioned there, the fact that I was getting errors while running Acronis backups that “Failed to read from the sector xxx xxx xxx” was leading me to believe my hard disk was deteriorating. To date, there has been no conclusive feedback from anyone as to whether this was the case.
My suspicion has further been confirmed, as this morning, as I brought my laptop out of hibernation mode, I got the message, “Windows cannot read from hard disk. Please insert your Windows cd to boot up.”
I don’t have my Windows cd and don’t even know if it came with my computer. I do know that there is a backup partition D that is about 2.3 GB and I think it has all the essential windows files in case the C drive goes corrupt, as it just did.
I tried restarting the computer on several occasions, first pressing F8 to try to go to safe mode, then pressing Esc when the first words appear on the screen, and nothing happens, I just come to a blank screen with a white underscore bar on the left, and a “tic tic tic” sound like Windows can’t find some file. Then I think I tried pressing Escape, and I came to a PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility, which I suspect may bbe able to get me out of this quandary, but I have no idea as to how to navigate it.
Is there a solution?
