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My favorite one was "Non-System Disk or Disk Error". It seems subtle, but it had everything: 1) Doesn't make any sense. 2) Doesn't point to a solution. 3) Is
by mynameishere 19y ago
My favorite one was "Non-System Disk or Disk Error". It seems subtle, but it had everything:
1) Doesn't make any sense.
2) Doesn't point to a solution.
3) Isn't really an error.
4) Completely prevents the computer from working.
5) Happened routinely--millions of times a day, I'm sure.
6) Seemed to infect pretty girls the most, allowing me to heroicly solve the problem (by ejecting the diskette from the drive during boot up.)
Good times.
- staunch 19y agoIt's a pathetic error message but it does make sense I think. The computar tried to boot a disk but it wasn't a (bootable) "system disk" or it is a system disk, but it's broken.
- Goladus 19y agoSpecifically, it's pathetic because it's grammatically ambiguous and requires additional knowledge. It could easily be parsed grammatically as, "There was an error on the non-system disk or the disk" which makes no sense. Even when you parse it the way it was intended, you need to know that the PC tried to boot from a disk drive in order to comprehend the message.