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DDO I/O error
Name: Petra Date: January 19, 2001 at 09:00:20 Pacific
Comment:
My computer (386) won't start up on the harddisk. The message I get is: DDO I/O error. Can anyone please tell me what that is??????
Name: fred6008 Date: January 20, 2001 at 11:02:30 Pacific
Reply:
I've no idea what DDO stands for, but here are some things that might cause the trouble. You have the right Cylinders, heads and sectors in the BIOS? The hard drive is 540 Mbytes or less? The HD is formatted? There is no Autodetect in a 386 you know.
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Response Number 2
Name: Petra Date: January 22, 2001 at 07:33:11 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you for your reaction, but i have found the problem and the computer works perfect again. By the way: DDO means Dynamic Drive Overlay
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