Use the Diskpart Utility.
The diskpart is also a built-in Utility to manage disks, external drives, partitions, and volumes. We can clean our corrupted drive using the diskpart utility to fix the I/O device error. Follow the below steps to use the diskpart utility.
Step 1: Search for Windows Powershell in Start and open it in administrator mode.
Step 2: Type the following command in the PowerShell and press enter.
diskpart
Step 3: Type this command and again press enter to see the available disks of your system.
list disk
Step 4: You will be able to see all the drives connected to your device. In my case, my corrupted drive is the disk 1. So I will clean it using the following command. Type this command and replace the disk number as per your needs and press enter.
clean disk 1
Step 5: Restart your computer once the command is executed successfully.
Fix: The Request Could Not be Performed Because of an I/O Device Error
Are you facing an I/O Device Error and frustrated? Then you are at the right place, In this article, we will solve the I/O device Error and will discover the various causes of this error and various methods to fix this error.
Before going in-depth into the methods to fix this error let us understand a little bit about this error and what are the causes that lead to this error in our systems.
Table of Content
- Method 1: Update the Device Drivers
- Method 2: Use the Check Disk Utility
- Method 3: Use the Diskpart Utility.
- Method 4: Change the File system of your External Device
- Method 5: Change Data Transfer Mode of your IDE Controllers.
- Method 6: Perform Clean Boot on your Windows.
- Method 7: Change the External Drive’s Letter.
- Method 8: Check for Malware or Viruses
- Method 9: Check Hardware Connections