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Messages of All Time They're rarely helpful. Actually, they usually add insult to injury. But what would computing be without 'em? Herewith, a tribute to a baker's dozen of the best (or is that worst?). By Harry McCracken abort retry fail | Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 5:28 am "To err is human, but to really
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foul things up you need a computer." So goes an old quip attributed to Paul Ehrlich. He was right. One of the defining
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things about computers is that they-or, more specifically, the people who program them-get so many things so very wrong. Hence the need for error messages, which have been around nearly as long as computers themselves.. In theory, error http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/41790/dos-error-messages messages should be painful at worst and boring at best. They tend to be cryptic; they rarely offer an apology even when one is due; they like to provide useless information like hexadecimal numbers and to withhold facts that would be useful, like plain-English explanations of how to right want went wrong. In multiple ways, most of them represent technology at its most irritating. In fact, people have an emotional attachment to many of them-like http://www.technologizer.com/2008/09/18/errormessage/ Proust's Madeleine, an error message from a machine out of your past can transport you back in time. That's a big part of why people form clubs to celebrate them, have them tattooed on their person, chronicle them for Wikipedia, and name albums after them. An entire company, the wonderfully-named Errorwear, exists to emblazon the images of such classic errors as the Blue Screen of Death (in four variations!), Guru Meditation, Red Ring of Death, and Sad Mac on T-shirts. And then there's this article-my stab at rounding up the major error messages of the past thirty years or so. I ranked them on a variety of factors, including how many people they bedeviled over the years, their aesthetic appeal or lack thereof, and the likelihood that they were notifying you of a genuine computing disaster. Your rankings probably differ from mine, which is why this story ends with a poll on the last page. Ready? Let's work through the list, starting with number thirteen and working our way up to the greatest error message of 'em all. 13. Abort, Retry, Fail? (MS-DOS) In many ways, it remains an error message to judge other error messages by. It's terse. (Three words.) It's confusing. (What's the difference between Abort and Fail?) It could indicate either a minor glitch (you forgot to put a floppy disk i
or the disk is write protected *TIP* if you need to delete the file just deltree FILE Bad command or file name - Usually this is when you miss type a command or if DOS does not know the command. Bad or missing command interpreter - http://www.escotal.com/doserror.html DOS cannot locate the Command.com a important file that holds all of DOS's needed information, you will need https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abort,_Retry,_Fail%3F to recopy it also there is a chance you could possible have a Virus Cannot find a device that may be needed to run windows- Make sure the path in your AUTOEXEC.BAT points to the directory that contains the file and that it exists on your hard drive . Cannot find system files - DOS cannot find your system files Directory already exists - You tried to create a directory with the same name dos error Disk Full - Message that comes when you to try to copy to a diskette that is full to capacity Divide overflow - Program has attempted to divide something by 0. Drive A: Does not exist - This message occurs when you have a dirty diskette Drive not ready error - Disk in the drive is not readable, such as a disk not being in the disk drive Duplicate file name or file not found - When attempting to rename a file the file does not exist or there is already a file old dos error with that name. File cannot be copied onto itself - An attempt to copy a file could not be completed because the file already exists or same source and destination. File creation error - Directory could be full because of the DOS limitation of files in one directory the file could also already exist or the file was not copied correctly File exists - You're trying to name your new file with a name that's already in use File not found - Meaning that in the directory that you searched does not have that certain file or there are no files in the directory. General Failure - Something bad has occurred and DOS not know what to say so it just gives you this error if this is giving when try reading the Hard drive you may need to format the hard drive or it possible even could be bad Help hot available for this command - No help is found with your command Incorrect DOS version - You cannot run your current DOS program because its not the correct DOS version load SETVER at your CONFIG.SYS to solve this problem Insert System Disk - Insert your bootable diskette into a diskette drive Insufficient disk space - Disk is full or if you are trying to copy a file to a disk the file is too big to fit on the disk. Insufficient memory - You don't have enough memory to run a particular command or applications Internal stack overflow - DOS's internal storage areas are full if you need to go into your config.sys and increase the STACKS=0,0 Invalid directory - Directory is invalid or d
Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (July 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) MS-DOS prompts "Abort, Retry, Fail?" after being commanded to list a directory with no diskette in the drive. "Abort, Retry, Fail?" is a computer error message found in the DOS operating systems, which prompts the end-user for a course of action to follow. The message has been used as an example of poor usability design in computer user interfaces. Contents 1 Background 2 Description 3 In popular culture 4 See also 5 References Background[edit] A primary design consideration for the DOS family of operating systems (such as MS-DOS, PC DOS and DR-DOS) was that software written for CP/M be portable to DOS without changes. In most CP/M systems, attempting to read a floppy disk drive with the door open hung, waiting for a signal from the disk until the disk drive door was closed. On some hardware, it would hang until an actual physical disk was in the drive. Many users of CP/M were accustomed to this as a method of managing multiple disks, by opening the disk drive to stop the reading operation, until the correct disk could be inserted. Even the first IBM PC had more advanced hardware, such that the central processing unit (CPU) could tell that the disk drive door was open, but returning an error would break software that assumed that opening a file would wait until the user had inserted the correct disk. Still, it was desirable to improve the experience if possible, in particular, by giving the user a way to get out of the hang without having to find a disk to insert in the drive. For this reason, the prompt was invented in DOS. Description[edit] A missing disk (or disk drive door opened) was defined by DOS as a critical error and would call the critical error handler.[1] The default critical error handler was part of COMMAND.COM.[1] It printed the "Abort, Retry, ..." prompt and waited for user input. Other problems (in particular, a checksum error while reading data from a disk) were also defined as a "critical error", thus causing the prompt to appear for reasons other than a missing disk or opened disk drives. Users responded to these prompts by pressing a keyboard key corresponding to action they would rather take. Available options included:[2] Abort (shortcut key A): Terminates the operation or program, and