re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 4:32 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5923 messages posted)
Disk I/O errors are generally failing hardware most probably the hard drive. You
can also have a bad data cable from the HD to the motherboard or a bad motherboard
HD controller. When this error accurs, you won't be able to do a scandisk or diagnostics
on the drive, or recover data from it. :-( Try replacing the data/ribbon cable
but I doubt that will help unless you have been inside the PC and damaged it or knocked
it loose. You can try a diagnostics utility from the HD manufacturer if the BIOS
can identify the drive but I/O errors are usually fatal. There is also the possibility
that you have bad memory. Pull the memory modules and clean both sides of the contacts
with a pencil eraser and reinstall them. You can use this utility to check your
memory: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
If none of that works, you have a bad piece of hardware somewhere. I would suspect
in this order: Hard drive, cable, motherboard and/or memory.
On Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 1:09 am, gemma wrote:
>I have a question about Prevent
>file corruption problems:
>
>why ist that when i turn on my computer, the progrm does not run. Instead a message
>is wriitten on it as "
>disk I\0 error. What is it all about ? How do I trouble shoot this? Whatever I key
>in same message will keep on appearing.
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