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Windows Forum / Windows 95 / November 2003disk I/O error message
my desktop is reading "Disk I/O Error replace the disk and press any key to continue" when there is no disk in any drive. when i place a win 98 start up disk in drive a: (the only start up disk I have) I get "unable to locate operation system". help! Get a utility to create a new startup disk at www.bootdisk.com. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > my desktop is reading "Disk I/O Error replace the disk and > press any key to continue" when there is no disk in any > drive. when i place a win 98 start up disk in drive a: > (the only start up disk I have) I get "unable to locate > operation system". help! thanks jeff the site was very useful, i downloaded the win 95 startup that actually started windows but i then recieved a error message saying "the compression drive cannont work with this version of win 95" and then moved to an a: prompt. what should i do now? >-----Original Message----- >Get a utility to create a new startup disk at www.bootdisk.com. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >. I doubt that the disk started Windows - I think it would have got DOS running for you. The message suggests that the compression driver (eg, drvspace.bin) is damaged. Is the hard drive compressed? Before trying to deal with this (or any other) problem you need to confirm that the disk is now operating correctly. When you have done that, you need to investigate the extent of the damage to the disk file system, and work out a procedure to repair it. Disk drive diagnostics can be used to confirm that the hard drive is working correctly. If it isn't, proceed with extreme caution, as anything you do to the hard drive might make recovery of your data impossible. If it is working OK, you can use Scandisk to test the file system. Do not let Scandisk repair anything, as it's possible that an attempted repair just makes things worse. You can also do simple tests like DIR C: to see a list of the disk contents, or C: CD \Windows to see if the file system is intact. When you know that the disk is operating OK and you know that the file system is OK, you can address the problem of the compression driver. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > thanks jeff the site was very useful, i downloaded the win > 95 startup that actually started windows but i then > recieved a error message saying "the compression drive > cannont work with this version of win 95" and then moved > to an a: prompt. what should i do now? > I doubt that the disk started Windows - I think it would have got DOS > running for you. > > The message suggests that the compression driver (eg, drvspace.bin) is > damaged. Is the hard drive compressed? that error occurs if the compression driver on the floppy is from a different version on the hd...it may be ignored if the drive is not compressed to eliminate it...just delete the .bin file |
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