A serious disk error occurred trying to read/write drive

Updated: 01/05/2018 by Computer Hope

Error with hard drive or floppy drive

Run ScanDisk on the hard drive or floppy disk drive.

Bad hard drive or floppy drive

Computer hard drive

If, after running ScanDisk on the hard drive, the same issue continue, replace the hard drive.

If, after running ScanDisk on the floppy drive, the same issue continue, or if the floppy has errors, discard the bad floppy disk.