Hi have asked for help on this before and am stilling needing help. I have a 486 and ahve formated the HD on a different comp. I put it into the 486 and it says disk I/O error replace the disk and press any key. It won't read the floppy drive so I can't get to the boot disk what do i do?

Sowler

What have you done to setup the hard drive in the 486?

Check this section of The PC Guide:
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/hdd/fail.htm


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Make sure you have the ribbon cable going from the motherboard to the hard drive oriented right, the colored stripe on one side of the cable should be located on the #1 pin on both hard drive and controller.

Check the jumper settings and make sure you have it set right, don't think this would be the case though, usually the wrong jumper setting will give you an invalid drive message.

If you formatted the hard drive on a different machine you need to make sure the FAT is the correct type for the OS. If you're running win95 A it has to be set up in FAT 16, win95 b and win 98 can use FAT 32. Whichever FAT table the OS is using it has to be the same in most cases, with a FAT 32 version of Windows you can use a FAT 16 drive too, but not the other way around.

You might have to run fdisk and re-partition the drive. Hard drive Partitioning and Formatting Procedure (http://www.pcguide.com/proc/setup/hdd-c.html) might be helpful.

If after checking all of the above, you still have the same error message, you might have a bad drive.

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