I have recently installed a new hard drive (Maxtor 200GB/133) on my dual boot (98/2000) pc as a storage hard drive and it was working ok until last night. I restarted the pc and when I chose the 2000 boot I got this message “Disk I/O Error: Status = 00001000” for a few seconds and then it started booting. I then waited for nearly 10 min and I was still getting the same 2000 page. The bar was moving but nothing was happening. So I reset and tried again, but no luck. I tried boot with 98 and there was no problem booting, but because the HD is formatted using NTFS I couldn’t see it. As I said, this hard drive is used for storage, so I uninstalled and tried without it and I had no problem booting with neither 2000 nor 98. I tried a clean installation of 2000 but the problem continued. Flashed the BIOS (just in case), still nothing. The HD is picked up by the BIOS correctly, and the red light indicating it is working/reading is flashing. Any ideas as to what might be the problem? Any ideas as to how can I recover the data? Please help thanks

Well I/O error only means your hard drive wants to have an i/o adress whats allready in use if you assign manually a i/o adress for the hard drive without conflicts you should be fine

thanks for the response, but i am not quite sure how to do so. i tried to install some drives came with motherboard's cd, but not result yet thanks again

Make sure your jumpers are set correctly and all connections are secure.