[X-Newbies] Error advice

[Philip J Robar]

On Jun 25, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Keith Mills wrote:

> I am currently using  OS 10.3.3. When I bought this model the shop/ 
> Apple agents transferred my existing personal and business data  
> onto the new machine for me. Mostly it works all right, but I  
> cannot open some of the files.
>
> I get the message: An I/O error occurred.
>
> What does this mean? And is there anything that I can do?

First of all why aren't you running 10.3.9?

Second, have you tried Disk Utilitiy's First Aid? If not, boot into  
safe mode - this will run First Aid as part of the start up process.  
The advantage of doing this is that you don't have to boot off of  
some other drive (First Aid can only check the boot drive, it can't  
fix it.) and First Aid in Safe Mode does a more thorough job of  
checking your disk than when run in Single or Multi User mode. After  
you get into Safe Mode run First Aid again to see if you're OK or not.

See this Apple support article for details: http:// 
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393

See also the related articles at the bottom of this article.

If this doesn't fix your problem there are commercial programs you  
should investigate such as Disk Warrior. A little Internet searching  
will find others.


Phil
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