IDE

It's probably the IDE disk controller. It may be built into the motherboard or it may be a plugin board. Either way you can buy a new controller card, plug it in and control the harddrive.

Don

Please advise where contoller card would be on MB. This is old computer P133

Greetings,

If you replaced the hard drive, did you go into the BIOS and ?auto detect? the new drive? If not, you?d still get that I/O error. Make sure the BIOS detects the drive. If it doesn?t, check that the cables are on securely and properly. (The red strip of the ribbon goes to pin 1.) You?ll also want to make sure that the drive?s jumpers are set as the master, not a slave.

If all those things are in order, you do have a controller problem.

Regards,

Maxwell

Have done everything you suggested Maxwell. Still getting error?

Just to rule out the simplest....have you just tried to use fdisk off a floppy and setting your primary partition to active?

Mark

Try another cable. Also double check and make sure that it's placed correctly.

You didn't state your problem very well. You left out all the facts.
I mean by this that it is very hard to solve your problem from here
without knowing more about the conditions and events that got you there.
I am not trying to be rude, I am very interested in hearing all the facts when I read these articles. What are friends for anyway?

So one day your woke up with your coffee cup in hand, walked over to
your computer. Grabbed a slice of pizza from last nights party then turned on your computer and it gave you this error. At least thats the way that I understood it from reading your statement.

OK, now that I have failed to humor you! Lets see if I can help you out by offering a little know how.

The error message came from your BIOS, it failed to talk to your controller.
Check all drive cables. Are they firmly seated.
Check that the drives jumpers are set properly.
Listen to hear the hard drive power up?
Set the BIOS to AUTO DETECT HD.
OR if your bios supports drive assignment enter CYL,HD,& mode
REBOOT
If it fails from here you may have a Controller problem.
Or if you recently installed another device, you may have a hardware
conflict.
In any case, try try try again.
By the time your done, you too will be an expect and we all hope to
see you on line.

If you have a cdrom in your 'puter switch, disconnect the cdrom from cable and connect the hdd and see if that helps. If not E-mail me and we'll see what we can do.

good luck

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