This message typically appears when you run chkdsk /f /r. If you see this message, if might be a good idea to back up your data to an external hard disk right away, as your hard disk could be failing.

Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

Had a power outage, now I get a "disk read error" message. Is the PSU damaged? Leander Dec 1, 2008 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

(1) A permanent, unrecoverable error such as a disk read error or circuit malfunction. Contrast with soft error. (2) A category of errors that requires user ...