Disk Read Error after hard shutdown

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plind

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I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit on my HTPC. Every now and then my system hangs and it leaves me nothing more than to do do a hard shutdown (hold down the power button for 4 seconds). However, now when I want to start my machine again, it hangs when trying to boot up and after 10 seconds it pops up a message saying there's a "disk read error".

Now here's the weird thing: repeatedly trying to reboot is still yields the "disk read error", but leaving the system off for an hour or so and then rebooting it oftentimes results in a successful boot.

Anyway, this is driving me crazy! I know I shouldn't do a hard shutdown, but sometimes the whole thing hangs and I cannot do anything else!

Is there anyone who has a solution for this? I've been Googling around and the "disk read error" seems to occur a lot with Vista. Maybe I should switch back to XP...?

Pascal.
 

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Hi Brink,

Thanks a lot for the warm welcome! :cool:

Thanks for your referral. What makes this problem actually rather annoying is the fact that I have the HTPC connected to my tv via HDMI. However, I (obviously) only get a picture when Vista is started, so it's a great pain to have to run Vista recovery, since that involves walking around the house with monitors and stuff and hooking them up. I was kinda hoping there is a way to prevent having this problem from actually happening. E.g. some setting that make sure that write actions to the drive always get committed "quickly" and that whatever happens al least the MBR does not get affected! Is there something I can do in the prevention space?

I rarely ever got an error like this after a hard shutdown in XP. I get the feeling that Vista is less reliable in this area. I don't know if anyone can confirm this.

As for my current situation: I decided to reinstall Vista yesterday, since I was having some other problems as well. Hopefully that will get rid of the freezes and thus for the need to do a hard shutdown.

Cheers,

Pascal
 

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Pascal,

I hope that solves your problem too.

Shawn
 

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    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
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    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
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    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
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    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
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    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
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    2560x1440
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    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
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    Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
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    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
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    Logitech wireless K800
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    Logitech MX Master 3
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    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
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plind said:
I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit on my HTPC. Every now and then my system hangs and it leaves me nothing more than to do do a hard shutdown (hold down the power button for 4 seconds).....

Now here's the weird thing: repeatedly trying to reboot is still yields the "disk read error", but leaving the system off for an hour or so and then rebooting it oftentimes results in a successful boot.
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Have you consider this may be an overheat issue?
 

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    EVGA 122-CK-NF67-A1 680i
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    4 x OCZ Platinum 1GB
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    ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
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    SB X-Fi X Audio
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    2 x Barracuda 7200.10 320GB RAID 0 / 1 x 500GB Maxtor
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    Seasonic 600W M12
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Have you consider this may be an overheat issue?
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Not really, since I monitor my CPU and case temperature rather frequently and they never really exceed 40 degrees Celcius (104 degrees Farenheit). Why do you reckon this might be the case?

Pascal.
 

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Not really, since I monitor my CPU and case temperature rather frequently and they never really exceed 40 degrees Celcius (104 degrees Farenheit). Why do you reckon this might be the case?
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The way your computer hung up every now and then seems to be heat related. Also, nothing will repair itself in a computer while the power is off except heat problem.

There is a possibility of that your psu and/or HDD going out although your cpu temp is ok.

Is there a fan on the front penal blowing air to the HDDs needs to be clean up? Also, you can put you hand on the back of PSU to see if the air coming out of it really hot?
 

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  • CPU
    E6850
    Motherboard
    EVGA 122-CK-NF67-A1 680i
    Memory
    4 x OCZ Platinum 1GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
    Sound Card
    SB X-Fi X Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 23" 5MS
    Screen Resolution
    2048 x 1152
    Hard Drives
    2 x Barracuda 7200.10 320GB RAID 0 / 1 x 500GB Maxtor
    PSU
    Seasonic 600W M12
    Case
    CM Centurion 5
    Cooling
    air
    Internet Speed
    100Mbps
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