RE: [Urgent] I/O operation failed
Have you tried restarting again? It might be a bad sector, I'm not sure what you do with those in Windows, but google might help  was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13 | 
