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"Disk I/O Error"
Hi,
I recently built a new Athlon system. However, when I tried to move my old storage HD to the new computer and set it as a slave to the new HD with XP installed, everything would run veeerrry slowly, and there are strange cycling ticking noises coming from the old drive. It never got past the "Starting windows. . . " blue screen. If I set this old HD as the master (even though it's not a bootable disk), I get a message stating "Disk I/O Error: Please replace and press any key to continue" and hangs there indefinitely. Does this mean the harddisk is dead? I've been using it in my old computer for 3 years and it has worked fine, and I've just pulled it out two days ago. I've also noticed that one pin on the IDE connection port is shorter than the rest! If the side with less number of pins is facing down, it's the leftmost, top row pin that's about 1 mm shorter than all the other pins. I've never noticed that before -- would this influence the I/O of the disk? I tried getting a pair of tweezers and pulling it out, but it's very firmly in place, suggesting that its been like that all the time, including the time where it worked just fine in my old computer. Any suggestions would be very helpful. If possible, I'd like to rescue the information in the disk lots of sentimental memories. . . Thanks! Rabby |
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"Rabby" wrote in message om... Hi, I recently built a new Athlon system. However, when I tried to move my old storage HD to the new computer and set it as a slave to the new HD with XP installed, everything would run veeerrry slowly, and there are strange cycling ticking noises coming from the old drive. It never got past the "Starting windows. . . " blue screen. If I set this old HD as the master (even though it's not a bootable disk), I get a message stating "Disk I/O Error: Please replace and press any key to continue" and hangs there indefinitely. Does this mean the harddisk is dead? I've been using it in my old computer for 3 years and it has worked fine, and I've just pulled it out two days ago. I've also noticed that one pin on the IDE connection port is shorter than the rest! If the side with less number of pins is facing down, it's the leftmost, top row pin that's about 1 mm shorter than all the other pins. I've never noticed that before -- would this influence the I/O of the disk? I tried getting a pair of tweezers and pulling it out, but it's very firmly in place, suggesting that its been like that all the time, including the time where it worked just fine in my old computer. Any suggestions would be very helpful. If possible, I'd like to rescue the information in the disk lots of sentimental memories. . . Thanks! Rabby put the disk back in your old computer... if it works ok then try removing it but leaving the ide ribbon attached... put it in your new machine on the 2nd ide channel and see what happens just a guess, but the new ribbon cable may not be making contact with that short pin if the drive still does not work in the new machine i suppose you could just put it back in the old machine and do a cable or network data transfer |
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