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Disk I/O error
Name: dgokhale Date: December 9, 2004 at 02:15:33 Pacific OS: NT 4.0 CPU/Ram: Pentium P4, 512
Comment:
Can anyone help with this: We are running two DNA sequencing instruments here in Liverpool which each have a Dell PC running NT 4.0. The PCs are configured by the company who makes the instruments, and have two Fujitsu SCSI hard drives. One of the PCs now won't boot and we are getting a disk I/O error: Status 00001000 message for one of the disks. I guess this means that the disk which has the boot sector on it has a corruption on it? The instrument manufacturer will no doubt swap the disk out and get it going , but my question is: is there any way I can get the PC to boot so I can try and retreive data before disks get taken away?
Summary: When booting an NT Computer, boot fails with the following message: OS Loader V4.01 ...Disk I/O error: Status = 00001000 .Disk I/O error: Status = 00001000 Press spacebar NOW to invoke Hardware Profi...
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