
Do you recall - abort, retry, fail?
Yes, this error usually occurs in computer systems that use older drive systems, 3.5 inch floppy and 5.25 inch floppy. My first incident with such and error was due to corrupted data causing the disk to be fully or partially unreadable. In these computer systems an unreadable disk would indicate the error and prompt the user to Abort, Retry, or Fail. Choosing Abort would stop the process and end the attempt to read the data. Choosing Retry would cause the system to read or try to read the disk again and Fail would also end the attempt to get the data, but try to continue the process with that file data. The letters A for abort, R for retry, and F for fail were used on the keyboard to do these functions.