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disk error - error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk

computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

hardware error - error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer

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Use the PC tools to fix up disk error and try to do this every week.

Ten ways to speed up your computer

The tales presented are the novel "The Wolves of Memory" and the short stories "Fatal Disk Error", "In the Wings", "From the Desk Of", "The Wicked Old Witch", "Mango Red Goes to War", "The Thing from the Slush", and "Posterity".

A Thousand Deaths

Just as RAID solved the "disk error" problem of the early '90s, and 'data protection' will solve the backup problem that persists, so to will 'workflow-based process automation' (operations management) solutions pave the way to solving the storage complexity problem of the 2000s.

Storage too complex, your customers say: listen to them

I've just started using Windows XP and I'm getting an intermittent hard disk error message.

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You sit down at your computer, ready to work, press the power button and are greeted by a black screen stating "Non-system disk or disk error." Restarting the computer doesn't help -- it's gone, your hard drive is now pushing up daisies rather than serving up bits.

Hard-driven to tears: data storage reliablility shouldn't be taken for granted. (Technique)

Richard Powers creates in his character "Ricky Powers" (aka Marcel, as in Proust) a persona for whom it is possible to respond to a disk error with hurt feelings.

Galatea 2.2

* "Non-system disk or disk error replace and press any key when ready"; and

DOS: disaster or security?