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Bad I /O
Name: P Clough Date: December 6, 2001 at 12:37:47 Pacific
Comment:
When I try to use a boot disk, i get the "bad I/O" error. What to do??
Name: Mark p Date: December 6, 2001 at 14:18:27 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried a process of elimination-ie trying the FDD i another machine. Tried another FDD in that machine etc. etc.
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Response Number 2
Name: P Clough Date: December 6, 2001 at 18:44:00 Pacific
Reply:
What's an FDD??
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Response Number 3
Name: fred6008 Date: December 6, 2001 at 19:00:26 Pacific
Reply:
Does the floppy drive work for other floppy disks? The first possibility that comes to mind is that maybe the BIOS perameter for the floppy drive is not 1.44 Megabytes like it should be. Go into the BIOS on booting and check, but if other floppy disks are readable when you boot to C: then that would not be the problem. And unless it is the floppy disk itself I am not sure what else it might be.
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Response Number 4
Name: P clough Date: December 6, 2001 at 19:54:17 Pacific
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It is a laptop. so the drive is pretty much only useable in that cpu. what does bad I / O mean anyway>
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Response Number 5
Name: fred6008 Date: December 7, 2001 at 21:24:04 Pacific
Reply:
I/O means input/output. This does not tell you anything much except that the BIOS is involved. Check the booting sequence if there is one in the BIOS. Make sure it is A: drive first. If the right size is selected for drive A:, there is not much eles it could be. A bad drive or something perhaps. Incidentally, I think FDD meant Floppy Disk Drive designated so as not to confuse it with a Floppy Disk.
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