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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!carlf
- From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
- Subject: What is this error message?
- Message-ID: <C0GDs3.26r@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:14:26 GMT
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- Hi. A coworker of mine has a problem using his Zeos 486-33DX
- machine to run Windows 3.1. Sometimes, especially when using Harvard
- Graphics for Windows, the Windows desktop is removed and he sees
- a fullscreen text-mode message, reading: "A serious disk error
- has ocurred. Press any key to continue" or words to that effect.
- Pressing keys doesn't work, and he has to use a cold reset to do
- anything. He's now getting this error several times a day,
- interspersed with more conventional (but no less irritating) Windows
- error messages telling him that an error has ocurred writing to c:,
- which are especially irritating when he is doing nothing more
- challenging than printing!
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- Of course, the first thing we tried was swapping for a new hard
- drive, but that didn't make any difference. While I'll welcome
- any helpful suggestion at this point, my specific question is:
- what program gives a fullscreen text-mode (color) error message
- headed "A serious disk error has ocurred"? Is it Windows? Is
- it HGW? Is it the Phoenix BIOS?
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- Thanks for any help.
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- Carl Fink carlf@panix.com, C.FINK4(GEnie), or CF427620I@LIUVAX.BITNET
- "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our
- inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter
- the state of facts and evidence" -- John Adams
-