After some fiddling with diskdrake I moved the / partition away from hda1, dedicated that to FAT32, created an hda3 (primary) partion for /boot and an hda6 for /.
Installation of WinME gave exactly the same result as before, i.e. "I/O error" when I reboot :-( Only, this time I was more confident in issuing a "FORMAT C:" from DOS, and that did the trick. So I guessed that diskdrake's format command is not really equivalent to DOS's. Michael message now raises another possibility. I *think* the partition I dedicated to FAT32 was marked active when I got the initial I/O error, but I am not sure. Anyway, now it works. Thanks to all for the great input. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Have had this prob myself when doing a fresh reinstallation of ME or 98. > > It has to be installed to First primary partition...that is hda1. > > Boot your machine with windows boot disk, run fdisk, display partitions > (4) and see if "C" is marked as the "active" partition. > > When machine reboots (first time) after copying files during Windows > install it looks for the active primary partition to continue the > installation. I doesn't "remember" where it installs the files. > If it can't find the files on the active primary partition it comes to a > screaming halt. Hence that I/O error. > > I believe that hda1 can be anywhere on the hard disk, not necessarily at > the 'front". Someone else may have more to add in that area. > > Michael Biddulph > Brisbane Australia. >
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