disk error

1. 1.

   error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk

   Broaderhardware error

   computer science

Questions about disk error

What does disk error mean?

disk error means "error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk".

Is disk error a common word?

disk error is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.