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Enkrypted said: It could be one of two things: 1. The floppy disk you have is bad. I would try another floppy disk to see if that works. 2. Either the floppy drive cable or the floppy drive itself (or both) are defective. Try replacing with a known good one and restart the fdisk/format...

jimp56 said: using a boot disk with the same version you have installed on the computer, type "fdisk /mbr" at the command prompt. then reboot. see if that helps Thank jimp56 for this valuable post! ______________________________________________________ thanks jimp56 for this valuable post :)...

what does that mean? this thread is a follow up to 'why won't my PC boot up?' it is now reading the floppy and saying "OK" and then I get the I/O error message.

now i get a message saying "reading boot drive from floppy.OK" and then immediately, this "Disk I/O error" I'm cornfused :)

tauris (TechnicalUser)asked: "Did you partition the drive (fdisk) before formatting?" um...........no. is that not good?

I thank you 2 nice folks who replied. I did in fact use the format:c/s I thought that was the only way to format a HD. I've tried to find stuff at bootdisk.com The problem there is, my WIN95 is a hand me down from my brother. I also have a 98SE upgrade disk. The PC in question was cobbled...

I formatted my c drive and am trying to re-install windows95. over and over, I get the same message. it looks in the floppy, the CDROM and the IDE and can't find boot record. is that because there IS no boot record? pardon my ignorance. I need help from a smart person or person(s) :) I'm...

much thanks, wolluf and paparazi! yes, I have my eye on a western digital 80GIG IDE HD at newegg for $60.00 I appreciate the replies, y'all. I'll be Bach :)

A friend of mine gave me this motherboard. it has an AMD cpu installed. I don't know which one. I assume the HD should be an IDE, as this is not a brand new or even late model motherboard. But, I'm not sure. That's why I'm asking :) Thanks! Bill