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Stack Overload When Formating HD

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by gc

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Was cleaning up some PC's and redoing the HD's. On one machine, after partitoning it(single), I was formating it and at the end it said, "Stack Overload caused recovery to cancel. Reset settings in Config file and re-format."

I've tried this going from no stack settings to 64=512, and sizes in between, and I still get the same message.

Any suggesstions? Thanks.

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by timthetoolman

The only thing I can think of for this one is a corrupt sector towards the end of the format causing repeated checking and blowing the stack.

Does the drive grind at the end?

Can you try to format it with a few less MB so that it doesn't get to where it has the problem?

...things to try, anyway...

Cheers,
Tim.

by gc

Sorry Tim, It just didn't help. My boss wants me to pitch it, but I'm going to keep it and play with it some until I figure it out. If I do I'll post another response. Thanks anyway.

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