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Disk I/O error
Name: Mario (by mpartida) Date: January 2, 2004 at 07:05:11 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: 733mhz, 256 MB
Comment:
I have an old Compaq Pressario that I have formated the drive on and am trying to load Windows XP on. It is not recognizing the CD as bootable so I am trying to use the diskettes. However, when I insert the first one it reads the disk and then says "Disk I/O error". I know the floppy drive works because thats how I formated the drive. (using a win98 boot disk and then using format c: command)Any ideas on what I can do?
Name: Davy H Date: January 2, 2004 at 07:44:18 Pacific
Reply:
Silly question, have you checked the floppy is okay on another machine?
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Response Number 2
Name: Mario (by mpartida) Date: January 2, 2004 at 08:32:52 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, I thougth that was the problem too, so I tested it out on another machine, and it worked fine. I also created a new set of disks to see if that worked and nothing.
Thanks,
-Mario-
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Name: troioi1 Date: January 2, 2004 at 12:09:39 Pacific
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