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wow remember these old DOS error messages?

C:\>

General failure reading drive C
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A:\kiteless.exe /BLM

@tubetime

Only in my nightmares! I remember the great hard drive crash of 1998. 3 HDD's all died on me in the span of a week. I was using used WD Caviar drives back then. Ouch.

Григорий Клюшников

could as well be that because whether you choose "abort", "retry", or "ignore", you would get the same error again most of the time

J. "Henry" Waugh

@grishka @tubetime why do I remember "(A)bort (R)etry or (F)ail"?

Григорий Клюшников

J. "Henry" Waugh, hm. Maybe it's that. Maybe I'm spoiled by Windows.

Ben A L Jemmett

@jhwgh1968 @grishka @tubetime Both existed, just in different DOS versions - early versions just had Abort, Retry, Ignore, whilst later versions offered different choices under various conditions.

I think 3.3 was the point at which it changed; 3.2 always offered Ignore but 3.3 and up rarely did, preferring the new Fail option. Very occasionally you'd be offered all four options!

tuban_muzuru

@tubetime

Fun and games, dissecting a FAT drive with a ruined r/w head, buying a duplicate drive, putting the old platters in the new machinery and shrieking with glee when it mounted.

`Da Elf

@tubetime I can honestly say:
* Missed that one.
* Response that Should Have Been.

J. "Henry" Waugh

@tubetime I did that once as a kid when I turned the computer off and moved it off one table and put it up onto another with the help of a fellow kid

Unfortunately I did not know about the Disk Park utility... 😬

Scott

@tubetime “Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?”, as we used to joke

GregoryDoodles

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Yes... it's where I stated... I'm old 🤣,)

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@tubetime is that a blue phosphor CRT or just weird camera while balance? Either way, it looks cool as shit.

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@st3ph3n it's a multisync but the color needs to be adjusted.

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wfk

@tubetime ah yes, that newfangled PC-DOS thing. The system came with a built-in glass tty, but other than that it was rather unremarkable.

Emmanuel

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@tubetime "Who is this General Failure and why is he reading my disk?"

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@tubetime @foone Who is this „General Failure“ and why is he reading my disk?

Piloot

@tubetime Who is General Failure and why is he reading your drive C:?

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@tubetime
Might be the cable and it's connections have rusted, if the disk can't be read. Don't remember that exact message.

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