Read error at booting

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to boot in my F10 partition, but just before the grub menu
>> appears (and it does not show up), I get the following error:
>>
>> "Read error".
>>
>> I cannot boot anymore.
>>
>> Any ideas? Yesterday, everything was working fine.
>
> In addition, when I boot in the rescue CD, I get the following error:
>
> "ERROR: pdc: reading /dev/sda[Input/output error]".

Moreover, in my BIOS, I see:

IDE Channel 0 Master [BzBzBzBzBzBzBzBzBzBz]

Before, I saw something like

IDE Channel 0 Master WCD....

Any ideas?

Paul