Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 11:24 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve (2 messages posted) I have a question about What to do about error messages during Windows startup: When I start up my computer, it takes a very long time to load windows. The following error message frequently displays and then Windows will not load: "The I/O operation on \Device\Harddisk1\DR2 was not completed before the time-out period expired". Am I dealing with a bad hard drive or Windows issue, or something else? Please help! Responses to this message: re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Ricer46: Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 6:06 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Steve: Wed, Nov 12, 2008, 11:24 pm) re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Ricer46: Thu, Nov 13, 2008, 6:06 am) re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Steve: Thu, Nov 13, 2008, 7:39 am) re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Ricer46: Thu, Nov 13, 2008, 8:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum