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Old July 18th 04, 02:42 PM
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dear good folks
as my printer and CD-RW drive are working erratically in
Windows XP Professional, i converted the c: partition of
my 20 GB Seagate (ST320432A) to FAT 32.
then i booted the machine using the Windows 98 startup
disk and started the computer with CD-ROM support and
proceeded to install from the installation CD. it
performed a scandisk of all partitions and said there are
problems with d: and f: drives and asked to fix it and i
clicked fix. (unfortunately i skipped the create undo disk
option).
now after the files are copied and the machine wants to
restarts for the first time it gives
Disk I/O error
Relace disk and press any key.
but i am able to see all the files on this drive if i
connect it as a slave to another working Windows 98
machine.
can anyone please help?
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Old July 19th 04, 12:56 AM
Jeff Richards
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You can't rely an a Scandisk 'fix'. You need to find to why there was a
problem and confirm that it is properly fixed. I suspect that Scandisk
tried to adjust a partition type for a partition it didn't understand. I
would recommend completely wiping the disk and starting over with FDISK to
create new partitions. If there was something valuable in the other
partitions you may need recovery software to get at it. You can start over
with a fresh disk by using ZAP or WIPE from this site.
http://www.chicorporation.com/support/IBM.html
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dear good folks
as my printer and CD-RW drive are working erratically in
Windows XP Professional, i converted the c: partition of
my 20 GB Seagate (ST320432A) to FAT 32.
then i booted the machine using the Windows 98 startup
disk and started the computer with CD-ROM support and
proceeded to install from the installation CD. it
performed a scandisk of all partitions and said there are
problems with d: and f: drives and asked to fix it and i
clicked fix. (unfortunately i skipped the create undo disk
option).
now after the files are copied and the machine wants to
restarts for the first time it gives
Disk I/O error
Relace disk and press any key.
but i am able to see all the files on this drive if i
connect it as a slave to another working Windows 98
machine.
can anyone please help?



 




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