Ja, I've had that on a couple of occasions - once it was a jammed key on the keyboard and the other it was the corner of a book sitting delicately unnoticed on one of the keys!
The first gave me an hour or so of worry before I figured it out - the next time I sussed it sooner.
Don't like
" DATA ERROR READING DRIVE C:
ABORT,RETRY,IGNORE,FAIL?_"
much.....