Hard Disk Errors 67 and 69

• Microsoft Windows NT operating system, version 3.1
• Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server, version 3.1
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation, versions 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Server, version 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0

This article discusses the possible causes for hard disk drive errors 67 and 69.

Error 67 CONFIG_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

Error 67 is generated for several reasons and can be further narrowed down by its first two arguments, which can be: 5 and 1, 5 and 6, 5 and 8, or 0 and 0.

The first three argument pairs indicate that an allocation failed, meaning that a request for memory from the paging file failed. More physical memory or increasing the size of the paging file should help this error.

However, if the first two arguments are zero, then error 67 was generated during initialization. This could mean either of the following:

• There is no more memory available.

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• An internal memory error, failed Registry call, or corruption of a parameter table has occurred.

Error 69 IO1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

Error 69 can be caused by several different things, including a failure in driver initialization. The following may contribute to this error:

• Not enough memory.

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• Some I/O device fails at the hardware level, particularly if an I/O device returns initialization errors.