An I/O Error occured while installing a file. This is normally caused by bad media

[acidvoodoo]

i get this when trying to install games, how do i fix it?

i formatted 3 weeks ago and have ran scandisk and diskdefrag, also tried copying games to hard drive and running from there but it stills happens

 

[thaneboy]

It look's like your hard disk is dying .
But u can :
Check the cable connection , ensure it to be perfect.
Did u use scandisk for dos (win98 bootdisk) and check every sector. u can also try NDD .
Check the cable type i mean use UDMA4 cable for best compatibilty.
could u specify some more info about your HDD ,MBD etc ...

 

[yazz]

i doubt it is your Harddrive that is the problem. Your CDROM drive is probably giving you those errors. the CRC on the CDROM drive is probably bad. try another CDROM drive before replacing your harddrive and wasting your time writing zeros or doing a scandisk.

 

[acidvoodoo]

hardware problem? didn't think that could happen, though this cd rom drive is like 5 years old

i'm getting a new system in a few weeks so i'll just wait for that

 

[acidvoodoo]

also is there some sort of free test i can run on the hard drive to see if anything is wrong, it's not that old, like a western digital caviar 13.6 gb
i have 2 drives, i'll test it on both (one is really small), if the error happens with both does that rule out HD or mean both may be screwed

 

[altonb1]

Errors on both drives could still mean several things:

Scenario 1:
a) both hard drives dying (doubtful)
b) IDE cable beginning to fail. try swapping the IDE cable
c) Primary IDE controller failing on the mobo.

Scenario 2:
a) If installing from CD-rom, as mentioned by others, this could still be a problem with the CD-drive.
b) The CD's IDE cable could be failing
c) Secondary IDE controller failing on the mobo

Scenario 3:
a) It's all just a bad dream, and this is really an illusion, and the film the Matrix is closer to the truth than you think!

basiclaly, there are still too many variables to determine the problem at this point. The cables are the easiest and least expensive to check, though, so i would start there.

 

[acidvoodoo]

i've think i've ruled out the cd rom because i downloaded the stand alone counterstrike and it got the same error, i think i have also ruled out also that my primmary WD hard drive is failing because i ran that safe guard thing on it and it found no errors, i don't know about my 1.7gb fujitsu 5 year old POS though

how do i check the IDE cables? make sure they are seated properly or what?
if it was them wouldn't other programs mess up, not just when installing things?