Disk Read Error (again)

[gorshar]

Add me to the long list of folks with this problem:

SCSI controller is not installed
Network bootrom is installed.
Trying to boot from primary master IDE drive...
a disk read error occurred
press ctrl+alt+del to restart

I've read many threads and see that nobody seems to have come up with a workable solution.

So here's where I am now:

Like others the problem occurred after my MacBook locked up and had to be forcefully shut down.

So - I first upgraded Parallels 6 to Parallels 7. Still the same problem. Tried booting XP off the disk but the same errors continued.

So I reinstalled Windows to a new virtual machine XP 1.

And XP 1 works fine.

Problem is, everything I need is in XP and I can't access it.

Any ideas how I can get programs and data out of XP and into XP 1?

 

[btr572000]

Me too

After 2 years of struggling unsuccessfully with Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro, I finally got rid of the partition and installed Parallels. Have spent the day installing Windows 7 Ultimate then about a dozen Windows apps and all was going fantastically well ... until I had to do a hard reboot ... then the dreaded Disk Read Error appeared! Aargh.

I found these threads here but after hours of trying things, no luck. I run Lion 10.7.4 and a Solid State Drive and do not know what Location to use for the SSD Hardware Configuration. It is showing 4 IDE options, 6 SATA options and 15 SCSI options.

I can't see any helpful SSD info in the About This Mac area. Have tried just about all of the options without success.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks,
Brian from Brisbane