Select Disk drives to unfurl the options. Right-click the drive with the I/O device error and select Update Drivers.
Select Search automatically for updated driver software. The process will begin scanning for any driver updates both on and offline.
If an update is available, install it, then restart your system.
Disk I/O error. Right-click the Skype icon in the Windows taskbar at the bottom right of your screen and choose Quit. Then restart Skype. If you keep seeing this error, please contact Skype customer support. This error is caused by something within the %appdata% folder.
Disk I/O error. Right-click the Skype icon in the Windows taskbar at the bottom right of your screen and choose Quit. Then restart Skype. If you keep seeing this error, please contact Skype customer support. This error is caused by something within the %appdata% folder.
Although I/O device errors are caused by hardware, we can try using the built-in system tool to fix the problem. The chkdsk device checks file systems and fixes file system errors. Press the Windows key + x to open the shortcut menu, then select “Command Prompt (Admin)”.
How to fix “Disk I/O Error” in Windows? A disk I/O error simply means that the system will never be able to complete a disk read/write operation. So, this error can appear on SSD, HDD, USB SD cards. This can happen on all/part of the drive, or usually in the directory of the drive.
Can it appear on a problematic internal drive (HDD or SSD), external hard drive, USB drive, SD card, CD/DVD, etc.? If the external drive displays an I/O error, you will not be able to transfer data (machine data) to and from the portable hard drive. Usually when you get 2 messages on Windows 10, you might find an I/O device error.
If you are using Skype for Desktop on any version of Windows before upgrading to Windows 10, Skype may be causing a real disk usage issue. If Skype does not require permission to write data to any of its subfolders in Program Files (x86), it will still close and increase disk usage.
Try to resolve the issue by contacting the problematic services below, such as Skype, Google Update, and Google Update (gupdatem) update services. So press Windows Key + R and in the next window type services.msc press Enter or maybe OK. You will be taken to, I would say, the “Services” dialog box.
To avoid hard drive errors, it is important to regularly (once a week per month) clean hard drives using tools such as CHKDSK and optionally S.M.A.R.T. – Hard disk check system. This helps detect extremely common hard drive errors and easily fix them before the drive fails or becomes inaccessible.
