Member Avatar for justMarshall

Yesterday I received a blue screen while working. After a reboot, it now freezes each time on the Windows logo, and then throws a "Unexpected I/O" error. As a last resort, I boot from the Windows 7 DVD, and it froze on the "Loading Windows Files" progress bar, and promptly threw a "Unable to read a device connected to your computer". Error. I am able to run Windows Startup Repair by going to F8 on boot, but it only says that it connot repair. To troubleshoot, I have unplugged each hard drive one at a time, and tried to reboot each time. I have reboot on each of the ram modules installed by themselves with no luck. At this point, I can't even enter safe mode.

Does anyone have any other suggestions to get out of this mess?

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Member Avatar for caperjack

sounds like the hardrive with windows on it has gone bad ,remove it and connect it with usb device to a working computer to check further

Member Avatar for topaggelies

Maybe is the time to format your hard drive and install the new Windows 8. I like them a lot.

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Member Avatar for ricardoemilio

I would go for the solution of replacing the hard drive. Don't know of any registry cleaner that actually does a good job and most of them let you scan but don't let you fix anything until you register and buy the program.

Member Avatar for johhny-marshal

If the DVD is not booting, you can for the USB installation. You need a bootable USB device and plug in. All you need to so is just change the boot device priority to USB and press enter.

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