When I boot my computer, it goes through the normal routine, but then comes up with "Disk I/O Error. Replace disk and hit any key." only there is no disk in the drive. This computer had been giving me problems laterly - not printing, freezing, etc, and I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart. Now, it's giving me this message, and I can't get into Windows 98 at all. I can get into DOS with a Win98 StartUp Disk, but it won't even run Scandisk without freezing. Any suggestions? I need help. Lots of data on the hard drive that I'd rather not lose in reformatting. Any suggestions on how to fix this? PLEASE? I recently moved the computer to another location. Could this be the problem? Have I killed it? Any help is appreciated.

Some silly cable connector may have jumped out. But the hard disk may have suffered during the move. If you boot with a disquette and type C: at the prompt and then DIR, do you see files and directories ?

You have lost your master boot records in your h.d. You'd better do a virus check.The worse case senerio is you are loosing your drive. greg

Well, when using the StartUp Disk I can get a C prompt. Only, the dir doesn't show any of my windows files or any of my saved data directories. In fact, when I tried sys c:, it said it couldn't read drive C. Have I lost the whole drive?

lo mas seguro es que tengas problemas con tu mother board asi que te sugiero que la cambies. para entrar a tu disco duro entra al BIOS de tu maquina (normalmente presionande la tecla "del") en advanced otions puedes cambiar el BOOT SEQUENCE el cual debe ser C THEN A, en lugar de A THEN C.

Thanks for reply no 4. That helps.

If all else fails start scandisk from the floppy and let it run overnight. It can sometimes take a LOOOOOONG time to fix problems.