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PC ERROR!
hi.
yesterday my uncle was using our pc to download movies and put them on his harddrive. he was doing complex things, which i dont understand, like formatting his external hard drive etc.
so i switch the PC off, and then go on (it was slow) and i get the usually compaq picture at the begining. then in black and white, i get:
"disk I/0 error replace the disk and then press any key"
i dont know what it means, and so just press any key, and this is what comes up:
"DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER "
what is the problem. im a student and have lots of computer work to do. im currently using a public computer, and cannot keep doing this as i had important stuff on it. help anyone? whats the problem and how do i solve it? btw, its a compaq PC, with an 80gb and 5gb harddrives (i think!) help please? cheers.
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Do you have a floppy in the computer? Floppies must not be inserted into a computer during startup, or you will get that error.
Remove any external drives or flash drives connected to your computer. Your computer might be trying to boot from them.
Go into BIOS (hold DEL during startup) and check the boot order. Check that your boot drive is the first drive in the order.
If your boot drive is definitely the first drive in the boot order, then the file system is probably damaged. Take the computer to a data recovery specialist. You might still be able to recover your data. Don't take it to a regular tech support place, they won't know what to do with it and will probably make your data unrecoverable by accident.
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It seems as though someone reformatted your drive as well.
You need to have your XP windows CD in when you boot up again.
what you need to do now is boot from the XP CD delete the existing partion create a new one and format and install XP on it.
Or take it to a local computer technician. Even the ones who don't cost much can fix this issue. Not hard to do but if you do it yourself you may lose everything you had.
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