Resolved What is giveio.sys and how to get rid of problems with it

Yes, I can enter the BIOS.

 

I'm closing this thread and chalking it up to corrupted data-- not a repairable operation.
There may be a way to salvage the data but not by somehow eliminating the file in question.

No command line or Safe Mode operation is possible.

 

What are your HDD's? PATA or SATA?
When you Right click on My Computer > Open > how many HDD's do you see?
If you see your Faulty/Botched HD you should be able open it by > Right click > Open/Explore >

I've just done an experiment with my XP Pro comp and connected up an old HD and the Main HD shows C: The second one shows as F:
If I Double click on HD F: it will show on the left of window all the content on the Drive.
I did a Drag and Drop of my "Neil" Files into the C: drive and it's transferring all that content while I'm typing this Post. The transfer time was started at minutes. I can see Documents and Photos being transferred as the indicator bar moves across the graph.
Have you tried this? Neil.

 

Never got that far on the giveio.sys problem b/c the OS would not load in Safe mode or anything else.
Also it was not possible to even view file or folder content from another NTFS
HD. Since the OS was not in a separate partition (something I should learn how to do but just never got used it) it took everything down.

There may be some file recovery options as separate tools and, of course there are services that do this for cash. That's 'deep computing' and I have one problem HD remaining which has not been wiped that I may attempt file recovery if I can find a tool that I can use. Tools such as DMDE which is free I got loaded but it didn't show me much. Parted Magic, same.

_And_ the HD in question has 'unrecoverable' sector errors showing in Crystal Disk Info and that program marked the drive as "caution" meaning ready to fail (I guess.) It also runs hot. What is weird is this 'Caution" HD has few hours on it compared to other ones I've gotten on the used market.

 

I had a recent problem with a Brand New Seagate 500GB SATA HD. I tried to "clone" the info for my brother off his W7 HD and the new HD locked!
I was unable to use Seagate SeaTools or Disc Wizard to recover the drive even with help from a Seagate Techo.
He advised an RMA as he concluded with me that the drive was indeed faulty.
I got my money back from the supplier - so even new drives can be dodgy. Neil.

 

I recall using discwizard recently where it said 'drive not initialized' but proceeded with the clone procedure and it completed. Have you done the 'initialize' a drive procedure either with new first time use or a clone job?

I am unfamiliar with the steps for that having used Norton Ghost for many years (but now looking for a new reliable disk copy tool.)

 

I believe this is the answer to the question at Seagate:

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005926en?language=en_US

This means that you cannot just ask for a clone after a low level format (which I performed using HDD Guru Low Level Copy Tool. ) The link shows what formatting is necessary to get the new HD going.

 

If you purchase a new HD and install it in your comp - it's ready to receive your OS from a DVD (W8.1) or (XP) and I believe you can partition it after to suit your needs.
During the OS installation - there is an option to set partitions.
When you say you have "Formatted" a drive - don't you get a message telling you that all Data will be wiped off the drive?
If you continue with the process - you end up with an empty drive! Neil.

 

Well I answered this closed thread partly b/c I was looking at an old mail file.

I have reused the HD spoken of above. And sure I get all the warning messages and try to avoid wiping something.

Discwizard behaved well after I did the following to a recent purchase which has so-called DoD security wipe or some such:

Low Level Format with HDD Guru Low Level tool. The description for this free program says it can eliminate bad sectors and give access to the full drive capacity.

I initialized this time by simply running setup on the same machine where the drive will be used. This should avoid any blue screen problems.

-> There is a fix though if you want to move an HD to different machine.

If there is interest, I can look up in my paper file.

Then I ran Discwizard for Seagate which transferred everything from a Seagate to an Hitachi Deskstar vintage 2007 with 50k hours on it. I'm using it as a second backup in case I run into a jam of corrupting two HD's in mid-clone (again.) There doesn't seem to be enough safety steps you take for this.

 

If your data is that sensitive. Try using a what I use to wipe a Hard Disk Drive. http://www.provantage.com/cru-31550-0109-0000~7WIEB0U8.htm

 

Oh no not at all. This is not sensitve data but what an Ebay seller sometimes shows as the method of disk wipe-- something I cannot say I even know what DoD style is.

If something like Copywipe or Darik's Boot and Nuke or other brutal data erasures are used, it can be difficult to rebuild the disk at all. A low level format then is the first step I use before putting an OS back on.

But I have wondered about NTFS being used by XP and Win 7 without the ability to see content files across the two operating systems-- what is in My Documents or Downloads for example.

Can you say anything about that?

 

Is this your own network. If it is did you try sharing so the other computers on your network can see each other. Try reading this. I know it says win 7 but it's still NTFS on both systems. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/file-sharing-essentials#1TC=windows-7

 

I am revisiting this thread with other solutions.

The giveio.sys problem cropped up on another instance of XP I have. I did something completely different: I moved the disk to different setup with a
different motherboard. This time the boot procedure went through. Keep in mind this is a new error from system not the previous one.

First I restored system to the previous day (the problem occurred overnight when my 24/7 build was unattended.) Then I used Revo Uninstaller in its fourth option brute force mode to uninstall Speedfan (speedfan was on htis drive as well)

During the Revo procedure Speedfan uninstall runs and asks if yoy want to delete giveio.sys because it could affect other programs. Say yes to the deletion.

The drive boots and has been behaving since.

Some part of the boot process was avoided by plugging into a different motherboard.

On the original problem: corrupted data shows the problem boot drive as D: and I think it is lost to repair. However I'm going to try to use one other method.