Takedown Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 hey all I just got some sweet new components and when i slapped them all together and tried to install win2k i got the following error... Disk I/O Error: Status = 00008000 Anyone out there no whut the hell that error is, represents or how to fix it??? I have tried a million possiblities from plugging in my HDD light to trying other drives on the board and still get the same err... have tried the drive in question on my current system...it read fine...even formatted it in the disk manager....went back to the new system (3 feet away) and still getting the same goddam error....over and over again while the win2k cd tries to copy the setup files to the drive... fdisked the drive set up a primary dos partition....no way to format it thru DOS due to lack of floppy drive... tried changing the RAM even... if anyone out there had heards anything AT ALL about this problem i would be very appreciative if you could give me some info....i will think that you are a genius for the rest of my life if you tell me how to fix this very aggravating problem.... :s :o :disappoin :ermm: :cross: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtgriffith Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Did you mark the partition active? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takedown Posted February 21, 2002 Author Share Posted February 21, 2002 only about 15 times :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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