I'm having a problem! So in an effort to quiet down my hard drives (both Samsung F1s) I wanted to enable AAM (Automatic Acoustic Management) on both of them using the ESTOOL by Samsung. I need to run it before Win 7 loads so I dig out a pen drive and make it a bootable DOS start-up disk using HP USB Storage Format Tool and files from Windows Millennium/98. I also stick the ESTOOL.exe on the pen drive after. I restart the PC and boot from the USB, it boots, DOS prompt pops up, good. I start the ESTOOL and it loads and finds the hard drives. Right this is where it goes wrong, I get a screen asking which drive to manage, from here when ever I start moving the cursor key up, down or pressing enter, after a random time i get an error message saying: "Error you are out of interrupt stacks" and it crashes, heeelp
you have to much ram in your system for 98 to address. 98 had a ram limit of 1.5gb. if your bios can limit installed ram, set that option, if not you can either pull some of your ram out or remake the boot disk with freedos.
Maybe, but that doesn't sound quite right to me. I had to make a 98 USB boot stick to load F4eg firmware a couple of weeks ago and I have no issues with 4gb of RAM installed. Of course doing DOS with simple command line and a basic executible to do the update might not have gotten in to any of the stickiness that a more advanced .exe and the memory allocation issues that might have resulted. That said, I don't think there should have been an issue with running more than 1.5GB, it would just address only the first 1.5GB.
Why did you have to use Win98 files, this one work on XP: http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm On method 2 on the website.
