DISK I/O ERROR
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Original Message
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Name: Mendy Patel
Date: February 20, 2001 at 17:21:55 Pacific
Subject: DISK I/O ERROR
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Comment: What does this mean? I get this error in dos 6.2 when my machine boots & then it halts. I am thinking the hard drive is bad. Could this be the cause of this error?
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Response Number 1
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Name: holey_moley
Date: February 20, 2001 at 20:38:19 Pacific
Subject: DISK I/O ERROR
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Reply: (edit)your hard drive may be bad or not properly setup (power & ribbon cables both securely attached & the disk jumpered to be a Master) or the parameters are not set up properly in the BIOS (cylinders, heads, sectors)
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Response Number 2
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Name: fred6008
Date: February 21, 2001 at 10:03:40 Pacific
Subject: DISK I/O ERROR
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Reply: (edit) Boot with a floppy and type FDISK. It will give you more information. "Disk read Error" or something along that line probably means the drive is bad. "NO drive present"
suggests the cable is not on or the power is not applied to the drive but it could be a bad drive also.
If your computer is 486 or earlier, it will not have auto detect of the HD, so check in the bios that some number of cylinders, heads and sectors is shown. You have to enter these manually if you lose CMOS battery voltage.
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Response Number 3
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Name: previous
Date: April 10, 2001 at 16:26:01 Pacific
Subject: DISK I/O ERROR
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Reply: (edit) hi. I am having disk I/O error when starting with my hard drive. When i use this hard disk in another computer it boots ok.
what could be the problem when uing it with
the other machine.
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Response Number 4
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Name: darkcircles
Date: June 14, 2001 at 19:51:42 Pacific
Subject: DISK I/O ERROR
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Reply: (edit)same problem, but i also get a disk i/o error when i insert a floppy. what could be wrong there?
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