What is a Floppy I/O Error?

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 9:21 pm

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?

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:18 pm

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.

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:43 pm

usually a sign of bad media ... have you tried another diskette?

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 11:35 pm

Sorry, I assumed he had already tried different media.

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 10:50 pm

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.