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"General Failure" Error And Some DOS Commands
DocumentID: 601155
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:28:37 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: A customer received the error "General Failure Reading Drive A:\" when she tried to do List Files on the A:\ drive. This occurred with several other diskettes, which had all been used on the computer before. Several DOS commands would not work either. The DOS commands on the computer had dates ranging from 1985 - 1987. After the customer booted from a DOS disk, and reinstalled DOS onto the computer, the error was eliminated.

Note: DOS files from different versions of DOS cannot be mixed.

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