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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Setup / February 2005Reinstall 98SE - Stack Overflow
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. > 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: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Files = 60, Buffer =40, Stacks = 64,512 but still cannot get it works. Any > help is appreciated. your harddrive is bad... time to replace it 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 > 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: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Files = 60, Buffer @, Stacks = 64,512 but still cannot get it works. Any > help is appreciated. 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 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.  SignatureJeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) >I am trying to reformat my C: drive to reinstall a clean COPY of WIN98SE. >I [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Any > help is appreciated. 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. ====== >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: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Files = 60, Buffer =40, Stacks = 64,512 but still cannot get it works. Any >help is appreciated. |
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