I put a hard drive in my computer with Windows 98 on it. When I boot the pc, I get disk I/O error...why?

Question

When I try to boot my pc with a different hard drive, I get a black screen and "Disk I/O Error" is displayed. I don't know if the hard drive jumper settings are wrong or not. How do I fix this so I can use the different hard drive in this pc?

Answer 1

seems to be a problem with the jumper settings. take out both hard disks and check the jumpers on it. The sticker on the HD will show you the possible settings:

- master

- slave

- cable select

for the disk containing the OS set master

for the second disk attached to the same cable set slave

Answer 2

If the hard drive was taken out from other PC,it can not work with new motherboard.You have to do BIOS first,then load device drivers from new motherboard CD

Answer 3

Sounds like you got to update your drivers and that is why I would just buy a new one.





it is like trying to make a chevy a Lincoln.



David