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September 30, 2003 10:48 AM

Broken: Windows error

Julian Graham writes:

The screenshot was taken on Windows 2000 Professional while trying to free up some disk space. Apparently, file deletion requires the use of some kind of disk cache, which, of course, may be unavailable if your disk is full.

This message struck me as a great example of why Microsoft's filesystem code is particularly broken.

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Comments:

I think the comment by "Go mama" is broken.

Posted by: Gerilyn at January 8, 2004 02:49 PM

Unforchunatley, until they get some serious competition, they will remain broken

Posted by: char at January 24, 2005 03:05 PM

It'd be nice to see the photo which is missing from this page as of 1/29/05.

Posted by: Brian at January 29, 2005 01:58 PM

WINDOWS=BROKEN=PEOPLE FIND OUT IT IS BROKEN=LESS WINDOWS SALES=THE FALL OF WINDOWS=BILL GATES GETS ARESTED FOR RUNNING A MONOPOLY=OPEN SORCE RULES THE WORLD=junk computers that could not run windows can now be used with linux.

Posted by: unknown at March 8, 2005 04:44 PM

actually, when you empty recycle bin the file is not deleted, the os just thinks it is ok to write over it.

Posted by: dogboy at May 2, 2005 07:42 PM

Yes you are correct. when you empty the recycle bin the OS just erases the files adress so it is no longer existent. So if you uninstalled a game than you installed a new file it would write over your game than if you wanted to restore your system you would run into errors with your game

Posted by: unknown at May 2, 2005 07:49 PM

one word, LINUX

Posted by: bob murray at December 3, 2005 12:58 PM

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