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Disk I/O Error on bootup

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SeeDLeone

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Hello,

I recently installed Windows Vista 64bit on my computer. Everything was working fine until this morning when my mouse was acting strange. It couldn't click on anything, it would just hover over things and they would change colors indicating I could click on them, but nothing would happen. I had this happen to me once before when I exited out of a game so I figured I restart would fix it.

So I restarted my computer and on bootup it says "Disk I/O Error."

What exactly can I do to fix this? I put in my windows CD and tried to use the recovery tools on it, but it couldn't find any backup files or restore points.
 
You could try booting to the recovery console and running chkdsk. That may repair the errors on the disk. However, it sounds more like a hardware problem to me. Do you have SMART enabled in your BIOS?
 
I really have no idea. I'm looking in my BIOS right now and the only thing I see is "SMART LAN"
 
It should be on the page with all the hard drive settings. Might be called something like advanced error reporting or something like that.
 
Okay, I found it and it was enabled. For some reason or another, I can no longer read my Windows CD. I'm contacting newegg right now. Only thing is that I don't know which harddrive is messed up. I have them set up as RAID0 so could be either one.
 
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