Hard Drive Error

[vbMax]

I am rebuilding a PC, and I am getting an error
relating to the hard drive. When the PC boots,
I get an error stating: "I/O error - replace the
drive and press any key". The master/slave
jumper is set correctly. When I boot from a boot
disk, I can read data from the hard drive which
leads me to believe that the BIOS is recognizing
the H.D. parameters. When I replace the hard drive
completely, the PC boots fine. My only thought was
that the MBR may be bad. Any ideas?

 

[edfair]

Active partition? Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.

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[kannanof]

if you suspect that your MBR is faulty, you can type "fidsk /mbr" from a dos prompt to rest your mbr.

 

[cdogg]

If you upgrade more than one major components such as the mobo and/or cpu, then windows will start reporting these I/O errors at bootup.

It is always best to backup data, format the hard drive and reinstall the OS after such an upgrade.

 

[vbMax]

I tried "fdisk /mbr" - that did not fix the problem. I
ended up re-partitioning the drive, formatting it, then
re-installing Win98. I am not sure what the problem was.
However, when I re-installed Win98, Scandisk discovered
approximately 250 bad clusters on the disk.

Thanks to everyone for your input.