Windows 7 usb boot disk read error

Asked 10 years, 9 months ago. Active 4 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 34k times. However when I try to boot from a defective laptop, it tells me: A disk read error occured.

Improve this question. Dave M 13k 21 21 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. Shawn Mclean Shawn Mclean 4 4 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Not sure if you are trying to install Windows 7 or repair the XP installation? Please clarify exactly what you are trying to accomplish, use the edit feature to modify your question. I'm trying to install windows 7 from a USB boot stick. It was your second paragraph that had me wondering.

Will it boot from any other bootable usb device? Did you try all the usb ports? Do you get the same disk read error when you boot from the hard drive? Moab I tried all USB ports. I did not get any error for trying to boot from the hard drive. It loaded up the windows xp bot screen. Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. So what I did was to move the USB drive to be booted at the top of the list.

It gives this error when I try to select it in the boot device manager. ShawnMclean And what exactly solved your problem? Thomas the first sentence. That bios at the time allowed me to reorder the boot devices instead of selecting them.

Add a comment. Steve Steve 36 2 2 bronze badges. This definitely sorted me out. None worked except this. OldPCProblems — Pierre. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Once you are in BIOS, find the boot order section.

In the boot order section, check to make sure the correct hard drive is placed as the first boot priority before any others in the listing. Changing this setting might be enough to help your computer boot normally. If it is still unbootable, try the next solution to fix disk error occurred. A corrupted or damaged Master Boot Record or boot sector could cause disk errors.

This edition has a feature called " Bootable Media " based on Win-PE; it is designed to manage disks and partitions when the operating system fails to boot or when there is no operating system.

Buy Now. Follow the steps in these two articles to create bootable media using MiniTool software:. Click " MiniTool Partition Wizard " to continue. Or, choose this feature from the context menu. After that, restart the computer from the bootable device you just created. This feature is designed to scan and test each sector of the hard disk. Step 2: Click " Start Now " to start scanning all sectors of your disk. Refer to the following screenshot: MiniTool Partition Wizard will mark " disk block without read error " in green , and mark " read error in this block " in red.

After finishing the disk test, if there are some bad sectors, you should take a measure to shield them. Unfortunately, MiniTool Partition Wizard doesn't have this feature. When there are bad sectors on your hard drive, due to data security reasons, you should back up your important files after shielding them. Otherwise, the data could be lost. How to make a backup while the system is unbootable with "A disk read error occurred" message?

Step 3: Choose a copy option between " Fit partitions to entire disk " and " Copy partition without resizing ". Feel free to ignore it since it is unnecessary for a backup in this case. Free Download. If there is something wrong, the faulty cables will need to be replaced to fix "A disk read error occurred". In this case, it is necessary to make a completely non-destructive and exclusively informative test on your computer's RAM.

Then you can take corresponding measures to fix it. If you have tried all the above solutions but still receive disk read error on boot up, you can consider recovering data from your hard drive. Your partition can get lost, so try MiniTool Partition Wizard with its " Partition Recovery " feature in the toolbar to retrieve the lost partition as well as data. Another data recovery software, MiniTool Power Data Recovery, is also helpful for retrieving data from a corrupted hard drive.

After recovering data, then reinstalling operating system is a good choice. Please prepare a Windows installation disc and then insert it into your computer.