What causes "A disk read error occurred, Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart"?
- by Mehrdad
I have a virtual machine containing Windows XP SP3.
When I resized the VHD file (and the embedded partition), and tried booting, I got:
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart
Some notes:
FixBoot and FixMBR don't help.
ChkDsk doesn't help.
The partition is indeed active.
The partition starts at sector 63 (it also did so…