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Yes. I recall one in particular that I got on the family's computer back in the day that got my sister and I a right proper screaming to by my mother. We had ju
by Sanddancer 11y ago
Yes. I recall one in particular that I got on the family's computer back in the day that got my sister and I a right proper screaming to by my mother. We had just gotten a brand new multimedia package, including a Voyetra audio tool -- the one that tried to look like a component stereo system. Well, we recorded a sample of some song, and proceeded to hit the double speed button, because things sped up sound funny. We waited, and waited as the 386 SX/25 worked on this task, creating a massive 30+ megabyte file, at which point the computer bluescreened, with windows gasping and flailing with all kinds of errors related to not being able to find files, corruption, etc.
Now, the hard drive itself was about 130 megs. Not huge, but not terribly tiny either for a computer bought the day the LA Riots started. However, the action to speed up the song created a new file which filled up that hard drive, and once at the end of the disk, Windows did the most logical thing it could do. It started writing from the beginning of the disk, paying no heed to what was already on it. Over the partition table, over system files, over c:\windows, everything. I'll spare you the details of the righteous fury we were subjected to after, but suffice to say, it was non-fun.