Hello there.
My friend and I are having a 2-man LAN party at my house, but as we were about to start, he decided that he wanted to install the USB 3.0 drivers for his motherboard. I wouldn't mind, seeing it as something only requiring a few seconds. As he did so, he rebooted his computer with the disk still inside. Due to this, ASUS Expressgate (His MB is from ASUS, in case you didn't realize) fired up asking if he wanted to install it (expressgate, that is). He clicked "yes" (or the equivalent) and installed expressgate. Since then, every time he tries to boot his main Win 7 Ultimate HDD he gets a "Disk read error" message which asks him to press ctrl + alt + del to reboot.

He can boot from another drive without problems.
Need some quick help on this one. We want to game so badly Dx

Re: Windows 7 Ultimate Disk read error upon b

Boot into Safe Mode - keep hitting the F8 key as it's waking up

Then - System Restore

That'll do it...............

(If not then........................the words Disk Read Error are ominous)

Re: Windows 7 Ultimate Disk read error upon b

Windows' not accessible at all. Neither is safe mode.

I disabled Expressgate through the BIOS, but the "Disk Read Error" still comes up when booting.

We will only reformat his drive as a last resort thing.

Re: Windows 7 Ultimate Disk read error upon b

He installed it through a disc that came with his MB.

Re: Windows 7 Ultimate Disk read error upon b

Which disk manager are you referring to here? We have a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit DVD. It did find problems on his drive, and attempted to fix them, but it didn't help.

We can't get into the OS to remove it with the CD there, and if we boot it up with the CD again, it only asks us if we want to make a DOS CD.

What do we do if it has changed the boot sector then?

Re: Windows 7 Ultimate Disk read error upon b

Miracilously, without doing anything except sleeping for roughly 9 hours, it now works... We immediately uninstalled expressgate, and tried restarting it again with the same result: it now works like normal again. I find it really strange (we both do, to be honest). I'm sorry for occupying your time, samuria and OPEN, and thanks for your advice and support.

Well, apparently, samuria: the boot partition/MBR works ^^;

Re: Windows 7 Ultimate Disk read error upon b

Well, we performed multiple cold reboots though. I honestly have no idea what might've fixed it...

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Ken J