Using the "Format" command, I have created and MS-DOS startup disk; however,
it does not work. When I boot from it I receive and "I/O Error" message.
Why - What is wrong?
Assuming that your BIOS is properly set to boot from the diskette
drive, there are only three possibilities for why it won't boot from
it:
1. You created the diskette wrong.
2. The diskette drive is bad.
3. The diskette itself is faulty.
What do you intend to do with this diskette? Most people running
Windows XP have NTFS hard drives. Do you? If so, are you aware that if
you do succeed in booting from the diskette, it won't be able to see
you hard drive?
Or did you mean that you *do* successfully boot from it, but then get
the I/O error message when you try to access the hard drive, for
example, by typing c:? If so, that's for the reason above--because
your hard drive is NTFS, MS-DOS can't see it.