Abort, Retry Fail? or sometimes Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? was an error message displayed in DOS when unable to read data. The user is prompted to hit either A, R, I or F accordingly.

Abort - Aborts the operation.
Retry - Tries to read the data again.
Ignore - Hands "default data" to the application requesting the data.
Fail - Tries to continue without the data. Fail nearly always proves unsuccessful as it will result in missing data.

Retry is in most cases the only hope for success.
Data error reading Drive C:
Abort, Retry, Fail?

'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, {always} choose 'Retry.'

Bad'l Ron, Wakener
Morgan Polysoft
by Atratus August 8, 2006
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Urban Dictionary Retry Is when you resubmit the exact same definition that was rejected before without changing it whatsoever

This is because it was perfect the first time!

Unfortunately the first time it was reviewed by losers that had no stance of humor or imagination. However the second time it was reviewed by totally cool people with intelligent and good taste !
Joe: I can’t believe those idiots didn’t publish your awesome definition the first time

Max: Yup: ... that’s why I did the “Urban Dictionary Retry“
by Free Speech 4 UD January 27, 2019
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