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A Disk Read Error occurred Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart

Tags: Compaq, Presario, 5000, Seagate 160GB hard drive
This message started appearing a couple of days ago.
I have tried resetting the CMOS, changing the jumpers on the drive to MASTER and replaced the ribbon cable.
Also tried changing the drive to secondary controller.
All to no avail.
Connected the drive to another XP machine and was able to chkdsk the drive with no errors.
Spinrite says the partition is larger than the bios is reporting so I have not gone ahead with the level 2 test.
Cannot run the XP recovery console from XP install CD as the screen goes blank after the message "setup is inspecting your hardware".
Partition Doctor says that the partition is not active. Partion Magic says the partition is bad.
MemTest86 says that the RAM is good particularly no errors on test 5.
I realise that Compaq do silly things with their partitioning and boot sector.
Seagate Disk Tools test on the drive says that there are errors even thought the chkdsk function when drive connected to another PC does not find anything.
It is 20 past twelve in the am as I write this ... won't be able to check for answers for at least 8 to 10 hours.
This problem is the first of its kind I have experienced in 4 years as a tech.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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Question Asked By: bryndwcs
Solution Provided By: dfke
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That data is probably still recoverable - it would just have to go professional, if it's important.  DriveSavers Data recovery is always an option - www.drivesavers.com

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