Computer
I/O Device Error
"Hello,
this morning, I got an error message saying: 'the request could not be
performed because of an I/O device error' when I tried to access a newly
installed internal hard disk. My initializing process also stopped by this
error. Do you know what’s wrong with this hard disk? What can I do to restore
its common use? Thanks!"
"My
32GB USB flash drive seemed to stop working this morning. It just gave me a
computer I/O device error message when I tried to copy some files to this drive
on my Windows 7 computer. The Windows also could not format it there. What do
you know about such I/O device error issues? Do know any solution to remove
this error? Any suggestion would be highly appreciated here!"
Hey, have you tried to unplug this hard
disk and see whether it gets the same I/O device errors again? OK! No matter
how badly the state of your hard disk is, such computer I/O device error often
happens due to some hard disk issues, loose or faulty hard disk connection
issues, hard disk driver issues and more. You’d better go check them one by one
to identify and fix your computer I/O device error problems.
Firstly,
go check whether it is caused by loose or faulty connection.
Do you know that the computer I/O deviceerror also is fully called as computer Input/Output device error? From the name
of such computer issues, it is not difficult to guess that this error problem
could be caused by some related computer hardware which will affect the PC
input and output conditions, like computer internal/external hard disk.
Therefore, going check the hard disk state could be what you are doing at
first. And in order to check the hard disk state, the first thing you are
supposed to do is to check whether this computer hard disk is correctly
connected there.
Therefore, go unplug this external/internal
hard disk and see whether it is recognized well there.
Please
Note: Always shut down the computer to remove the
internal hard disk or click "safely remove hardware" icon to remove
your external hard disk at first in case that rude drive extraction can cause
worse or more drive troubles.
Secondly,
go check whether it is caused by hard disk driver issues.
Whether the computer internal/external hard
disk could work functionally also could be affected by the hard disk driver
conditions. When your hard disk driver is installed there well and also updated
timely, your plunged internal/external drive often can work well and improve
the computer performance. However, oppositely, when you do forget to install or
update compatible hard disk driver, your computer performance also could be
negatively affected.
Hence, go download or update your hard disk
driver after you check the hard disk connection.
Please
Note: In case of such computer I/O device errors
caused by outdated hard disk driver, you’d better timely check and download the
updates of your hard disk driver.
Thirdly,
go check whether it is aroused by hard disk issues.
In daily use, the hard disk issues also can
bring you such computer I/O device problems. Therefore, checking the hard disk
state is also necessary for you now. Merely go open the Disk Management
interface and check how this hard disk shows there. Does it show a drive letter
there normally? If not, go add a common drive letter there by right clicking
this disk there to choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths" there at
first. And then, run CHKDSK tool there to see whether this drive has some
physical damages. If it is detected with many bad sectors, use this
error-checking tool to mark all bad sectors out for future use. Of course, if
this disk checking tool shows your drive is completely physically damaged
somehow and cannot be fixed there, also go purchase another new hard disk to
instead this old one in case that this damaged original drive can cause more
computer problems.
Additional
Tips:
*
Back up computer hard disk data before fixing the possible drive problems.
No matter whether you have found out some
hard disk problems or not, always back up hard disk data on another storage
device before you start any solutions to fix such possible drive issues.
Otherwise, you may lose some important data unwillingly. Of course, if you
really delete some drive files or format hard disk without data backups, also
go start harddisk file recovery software to take chances.
* Go
verify storage device when you get such I/0 device error on other removable
media.
Such computer I/O device errors often do
not only occur to the commonly used USB flash drives or internal/external hard
disks and also can happen to some storage devices, including CD, DVD, MP3
players and more removable media. Also go check the media carefully.
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