adiz,

On July 16, 2003, I had a message that said "A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

Your problem reminded me my message. I reinstalled everything 'cuz I didn't want the hassles. My computer's working okay now (it's been a little more than a month since that disasterous day).
The problem reoccurred again (I received the same message) about 2 weeks ago; but upon the 3 finger salute, it found the OS...STRANGE????
Anyway, I normally back up data about 1x a month. Within the last month, I already did 2 backups. hahaha
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING TO adiz and I?

Anyway, I sympathize with you my friend (misery loves company) and hope you get some bit and bytes from your computer before resorting through what I went through.

Aloha and Good luck