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Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 1:09 am
Posted by gemma (1 messages posted)

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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re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 4:32 pm
Posted by C K (5922 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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