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Try doing a fdisk /mbr a few times, also try fdisking the drive and delete-make a new partition and format it (you will lose all you data if you delete the partition or format it)
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Try doing a fdisk /mbr a few times, also try fdisking the drive and delete-make a new partition and format it (you will lose all you data if you delete the partition or format it)

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Sounds like the Hard Drive is slowly Dieing to me...<br />
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Sorry..<br />
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You can try a fdisk /mbr though but I have seen that in too many bad drives...<br />
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How old is the drive and what kind and what size?
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Sounds like the Hard Drive is slowly Dieing to me...

Sorry..

You can try a fdisk /mbr though but I have seen that in too many bad drives...

How old is the drive and what kind and what size?

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4 YEARS, AROUND 800MEG, BY THE WAY, IT'S OK NOW. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. WHAT'S MBR STANDS FOR?? AND WHAT DOES THAT COMMAND DO?
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4 YEARS, AROUND 800MEG, BY THE WAY, IT'S OK NOW. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. WHAT'S MBR STANDS FOR?? AND WHAT DOES THAT COMMAND DO?

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The commant will change your master boot record to an earlier one so if you install a boot manager or something for example and you can't uninstall it then you would do a fdisk /mbr.
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The commant will change your master boot record to an earlier one so if you install a boot manager or something for example and you can't uninstall it then you would do a fdisk /mbr.

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Did one of the above solutions work? &nbsp;If it worked, then accept it as the answer.
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Did one of the above solutions work?  If it worked, then accept it as the answer.

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hi,<br />
when i turn on the computer, &quot;disk i/o error&quot; appeared. when i use windows98 startup disk, i can see the c drive and its contents. <br />

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hi,
when i turn on the computer, "disk i/o error" appeared. when i use windows98 startup disk, i can see the c drive and its contents. 


disk I/O error message

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