I received the following error message "A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart." I installed a new Maxtor 160Gb drive and stood up XP Pro SP1 on my HP Pavilion 800Mhz w/768Mb memory. Ran great for 3 weeks (while I was recovering from a crashed W98 Western Digital 100Gb drive failure) when one morning I booted up my PC and received this ugle message on this brand new drive and system configuration. I installed the Maxtor using the supplied IDE cable. My BIOS recognized everthing from the get go. Maxtor has had me run numerous disk utilities to verify drive is functioning OK, all has checked out fine. Is the boot record damaged? Can this be repaired or corrected without a total rebuild? I don't have a clue why things broke since I did not change any of the hardware. Any suggestions out there?
Regards, Chuck