Disc read error

[sinfulmudkip1991]

Hi i have a problem with my laptop my model is acer 5732z had windows 7 tried installing windows xp as second os it started installing fine until it rebooted no it only says disk read error press ctrl alt del to restart the os says microsoft windows xp 64-bit edition version 2003 setup i used an iso off the internet for it im a bit noobish at this any help is welcomed please reply

 

[hang-the-9]

Hi i have a problem with my laptop my model is acer 5732z had windows 7 tried installing windows xp as second os it started installing fine until it rebooted no it only says disk read error press ctrl alt del to restart the os says microsoft windows xp 64-bit edition version 2003 setup i used an iso off the internet for it im a bit noobish at this any help is welcomed please reply

Few things could have happened, you did not install XP properly as a secondary OS and just wiped the Windows 7 setup while you were doing it. Could be a failing hard drive. Could be that the XP setup just messed up the boot options and that the Windows 7 setup is fine but the laptop does not see the files on it. Boot off a Linux Live disk (you can look up how to make one online, Ubuntu is fine to use for this), see if your Windows 7 setup is still on the drive. If you are new to working with operating systems you may want to get someone to help you sort out what is on the disk and if you can recover anything.

 

[sinfulmudkip1991]

I tried reset bios to defaults and my hard drive was fine until i started installing it would buy a windows 7 installion disc help or a repair disc or not what other options could i try my windows 7 dont show up at all

 

[hang-the-9]

I tried reset bios to defaults and my hard drive was fine until i started installing it would buy a windows 7 installion disc help or a repair disc or not what other options could i try my windows 7 dont show up at all

The BIOS has nothing to do with the setup of Windows unless you were changing drive options and it stopped booting after that. Resetting that won't do anything for Windows. Your system should have a recovery partition, try using that to re-install the original setup. It will wipe the disk and set everything back like the system was new, unless you wiped all the partitions while installing XP.