Disk read error alt+ctrl del restart

Have you checked your bios to see what the system is configured to boot from first? Make sure your hard drive is the first boot device in the list.

In most cases, all recent versions of Windows use Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Tasm Manager. You can't usually use that key combo to restart your PC.
When you did that, was any application highlighted as 'not responding?' If so, that is where you should start looking for problems.
Otherwise, try to post additional information for us here.
-a.

Is it a black screen right when you boot your computer? If so this could be a fatal disk error and the harddrive has crashed.

There is no easy fix other than to replace the harddrive.

it probibly means your harddrive has bit the dust
it is the most common part to fail on a computer

it could be the hard drive is bad

My Acer Aspire LapTop will not even power up.
What should we do as this machine has also been charging battery for two days

It has worked before but all of sudden it simply failed to power up.

What's up with this !

Turn the pwr off for 5 minutes
turn the pwr on and tap the F8 or press the F8, 8 times
and select safe mode and do a system restore

Your Harddisk drive did not detect by your motherboard, try to remove the IDE cable and the power cable to the harddisk and return it back and surely fit in..

tnx
-micro

There are a couple of possibilities.

1. The hard drive is defective.

2. The operating system is corrupt.

The easiest way to test this is to run the restore cd that came with the computer to reload Windows.

If you get this error while running the restore cd then you will need to get a new hard drive.

1- Press and hold the power button on your computer box/case/tower until it shuts down. 2- keep tap/click on "F8" botton while turning you computer on. 3- A black option with some text on it should appear 3- choose Safe Mode 4- go to "My Computer" and right Click on "C" drive and choose Properties 5- go to "Tools" then click "Check Now" button in the "Error Checking" box 6- tick "Automatic ..." then click "Start" 7- Click Shadule and restart your computer. 8- Do not click any thing utill teh utility checks your system If you still have the same problem then it means that you have a virus Download AVG Antivirus if you dont have antivirus program. Now restart your computer and do the step 2-3 and run your antivirus program to search for all "files and folder". Link to download AVG Antivirus: http://free3.grisoft.cz/filedir/inst/avg75free_488a1157.exe