My laptop won't turn on!

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#1 ipromise3
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When i turn it on it keeps saying
"A disk read error occured.
Please Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart"

And when I do this, the same screen pops up...

ANy1 know what 2 do?

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#2 clyde46
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Windows is corrupted I think.

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#4 Ravirr
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Windows is corrupted I think.

clyde46

I was more inclined to say bad boot sector.

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#5 manic111
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I'd agree with that.

Best thing to do is to download Puppy Linux or DSL, mount the Windows drive through that, and see if you can access anything. If you can, back up everything that you need to to an external drive or something, and reinstall Windows.