- Reinstall 98SE - Stack Overflow
- Posted by Allen on February 19th, 2005
I am trying to reformat my C: drive to reinstall a clean COPY of WIN98SE. I
have prepared the WIN98SE starup disk but run into problem with the format C:
action. When I use the startup disk to boot up the system and type : format
C:. I got this error message "Trying to recover allocation unit 394,234. An
internal Stack Overflow has caused this session to be halted. Change the
stacks setting in your Config.sys file and then try again" The system freeze
from this point. I try to do format C: by exiting to DOS in Windos but same
result. I also update the Config.sys in the startup disk using these values
as suggested in Microsoft KB
Files = 60, Buffer =40, Stacks = 64,512 but still cannot get it works. Any
help is appreciated.
- Posted by philo on February 19th, 2005
"Allen" <Allen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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your harddrive is bad...
time to replace it
- Posted by Ben Myers on February 19th, 2005
Many hard disk manufacturers have diagnostic software available for download.
Maxtor http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/index.htm
Seagate http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/B7a.html
Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/DlgDiagv504c.exe
Ben
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- Posted by Jeff Richards on February 19th, 2005
The stack overflow is caused by system interrupts occurring while the system
is hung up on the failed disk access. You need to confirm that the drive is
correctly configured in BIOS setup (so that the system is not attempting to
do something the drive cannot do) and if it's correct then you need to run
the hard disk drive diagnostics to find out what the fault in the hard drive
is.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Allen" <Allen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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- Posted by Mikhail Zhilin on February 19th, 2005
Allen,
"philo" is correct: your HDD has too many bad blocks to be used more.
--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:19:02 -0800, "Allen"
<Allen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
- Posted by philo on February 20th, 2005
"Ben Myers" <benjmyers@mindR-E-M-O-V-Espring.com> wrote in message
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Many hard disk manufacturers have diagnostic software available for
download.
Maxtor http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/index.htm
Seagate http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/B7a.html
Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/DlgDiagv504c.exe
good advice...
the diagnostic can confirm a harddrive problem...
many mfg's even have a utility for low level formatting the drive.
caution: even if a low level format "repairs" the errors you should not
trust the
drive. i've experimented with a few older drives and many of them that were
low level formatted
just developed errors again within the next few weeks
