Disk read error after bios update!

[adsmithy]

Hi,

FYI. Motherboard is Abit NF7-S v2.0 with Sil 3112 SATA150 controller. Hard drive is an Hitachi 160Gb SATA.

My Dad's computer has been having some problems with USB devices not working. Like ipod Nano and a bluetooth usb adaptor.

The only thing I could think of was changing the bios from an unofficial modded bios back to an official Abit bios.

I downloaded the bios and flashed it, within windows, using the Abit flashing utility.

It flashed fine but when the system reboots I'm getting a "Disk read error, press ctrl alt del to restart system".

Since then, I have tried 3 different offical Abit Bios. I flashed these using a bootable CD. I have also tried the Windows XP repair/recovery utility included on the XP installation CD.

I have scanned the disk for errors using windows recovery. No errors. I have also written a new boot sector but to no avail.

There are some other options that windows recovery has but I'm unsure of what these actually do.

Can anyone help at all?

[peterb]

If you booit from the windows recovery disk (or from any other CD based operating system) can you read/write to the hard disk?

[arthurleung]

Did you actually set the correct boot device order?