Microsoft KB Archive/68960

BACKUP Gives R6000 Stack Overflow Error PSS ID Number: Q68960 Article last modified on 02-05-1993 PSS database name: O_MSDOS

4.00 4.01

MS-DOS

Question:

I am trying to back up files on my hard drive to my floppy drive using the MS-DOS BACKUP command. When I issue the command to start the backup, the following error message appears:

R6000 - stack overflow

At this point, the backup fails. What is causing this problem?

Response:

This error message has been known to occur when the BACKUP.COM or BACKUP.EXE file has been corrupted. Replace the BACKUP file on your hard drive with the BACKUP file from your original MS-DOS disk.

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