say you tried to boot from a statr up disk do you mean that it did boot from it or it gave that message? If you chose floppy as your first boot choice and your floppy disc is good it should load all the tools you need to scan the registry etc...
ECS 848P-A V. 2
256 SDRAM
3.0 P4 E
SAMSUNG SM-332 COMBO DRIVE
20 GIG WESTERN DIGITAL HD (OLDER)
FLOPPY DRIVE (DONT KNOW WHAT KIND (OLDER))
RADEON 9800 PRO VIDEO CARD
350 WATT POWER SUPPLY
I recently put together a computer with these parts. It starts up and i can get through the bios and then it goes to a black scree and says "DISK I/O ERROR INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ANY KEY". I have tried 4 different boot disks for windows 98 SE and have even tred to boot straight from the cd. The hard drive had windows 95 on it and workjed fine in another computer. What could be the cause of this error, and how could it be fixed?

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