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What is a Floppy I/O Error?
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 9:21 pm
by Mike89
I'm having problems with my floppy. It will boot ok using boot to floppy in BIOS. But when trying to open a floppy in Windows XP, I either get insert disk (disk is already inserted) or a message saying there is an I/O error.
Anyone have any ideas what the problem is?
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:18 pm
by MegaVectra
Have you had the drive out, is the cable connected right? If not trash it.
Floppy drives are a dime a dozen these days. You can get them around here for less then 10 bucks.
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:43 pm
by RubberDuckie
usually a sign of bad media ... have you tried another diskette?
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 11:35 pm
by MegaVectra
Sorry, I assumed he had already tried different media.
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 10:50 pm
by Mike89
yes I have tried different floppies. I can boot to the floppy and it reads fine. I can try to open the very same floppy in Windows XP and get that error or a message saying to insert the disk.