Disk I/O Error in Win2K????

[kari]

I have this disk I/O error displaying on my screen each time my Win2K box boots. does any one know what's causing it? i am using a maxtor 20GB UDMA66 drive,panasonic zip drive as slave to the hard drive, sony spressa cd-r/cd-rw drive as secondary and a toshiba cd-rom. mobo is Soyo K7VIA.
thanks
kari 😕

 

[kari]

bump, bump, bump
kari 😕

 

[JesseKnows]

Could you quote the actual message? "this message" is not very informative.

 

[Kizmit]

I am having this same error message. (EPOX8KTA3/Duron/Quantum30gig)

It looks something like this:

Disk I/O Error: 0000080004

Shows up during Win2k setup, and each time the computer is booted. You guys think this is a driver problem or another win2k compatibility error?

 

[vohwink1]

Yes, I know what the problem is. I searched high and low, posted on here, and nobody could help. Finally, I found an answer!

Let me guess, at one time or another you had win98 (or other OS) installed previously? I was messing around and was dual booting to 98.. etc etc. Then, instead of formatting, I just deleted win98 directory, and reinstalled 2k. Then I was getting that message.

It has to do with something in the boot record I believe. A trace of win98 or whatever. It poses no problems to you or windows currently, so don't worry about it. It is annoying I know, but I just reformated and I haven't noticed the error since. So, I think that's the only solution, but they may be another if anyone cares to help out and give me some more info.

 

[kari]

thanks vohwink1, i think what you say is true. i had winNT 4.0 Server and Win98 on dual boot earlier and instead of reformatting the hardrive i chose to replace both the OSes. But Win2K did reformat my C: drive before it installed. guess i can live with this.
JeeseKnows, the message is Disk I/O Error: 0000080001 and it always appears before Win2K appears with the black screen/white strip-at-the-bottom act.
this was my first post on anandtech. thanks for the response, guys.