Whats an I/O Error

[SIRCOOKS]

the drive with all my movies is telling me this when i try to move them....im trying to perform a low level format on that drive or a fdisk....so i was trying to move them to my next comp over my network and they wouldn't move....plus when i open up partition magic to see if it can do anything to the drive...the drive is covered in yellow and says "bad" on it..........any ideas guys...............

[just_do_IT]

Check the obvious first - ensure your ide cable has not come partially loose. Try swapping the cable with a known good, see if that changes anything.

How full is that particular drive? And can you do basic things such as a disk cleanup or a defrag?

[tubebuoy]

Can you burn them to CDR? What OS and CPU are you using?

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[DoG]

Damaged or lost clusters or communication error between the 2 devices. Sounds like either your HD is going down or your computer is having an other problem reading from the device. Use Norton Disk Doctor to scan and attempt repairs on the drive (You have norton system works installed? i remember from another post.)

If that doesn't correct the fault you will have to try to recover the data using other emergency data recovery software.

Be quick about it though- the longer any data is left on the drive the greater the chance of corruption (The odd bad block or sector showing its ugly head is usually nothing to worry about- when multiple bad blocks or sectors appear then you have a bigger problem).

Disable "Write Cacheing" in the system properties- if a system restarts itself during a write process because of power loss or just because it is windows this can cause the data being written to be lost and can leave unreadable garbage on a drive.

Let me see if i can remember the dos prompt commands that chkdsk use for repairing ntfs volumes- if you are running windows xp that is (Seem to remember you are) Or are the drives formatted using FAT32?

[SIRCOOKS]

man nothing works, in chkdisk and in norton system works, it wouldn't move past the point of file checking or cahing, i can remember which one...........should i just throw away this disk now..........................holla

[DoG]

You could try a data recovery program and see if that can access the files. It may be possible to recover them

[richardc2000]

@SIRCOOKS - when you say your movie drive is having problems - do you mean partition or entire physical drive?
Have you thought about removing the movie HD and installing in another PC to see if it the drive itself or your PC?

[SIRCOOKS]

switching the harddrive is still an iption, i just haven't tried it because im taking it back to future shop, and if they cant fix it, then ill get a new comp...you see....but ill try that solution asap aiight,..........please help me solve these problems message board..........big up from the bahamas(im finishing university in canada right now, for you hackers that can trace my ip....lol)

[Cyberion]

University in Canada. Can you say where? UBC, U of T, Lakehead, Waterloo??

Wow.. I'm canadian studing down in the states.. and your from the states studing in Canada. that is what I call switching places. hahahah.. lol

[SIRCOOKS]

nah dog..im an international students from the bahamas studying at the university of western ontario, im not from the states..peace homie