HDDScan 3.3 crashed while scanning

[JDlugosz]

I was running the surface scan on a new (never used, not formatted) WD "Red" 4TB drive.  96% of the way through, it gave a Windows process pop-up.  I chose to "debug" and in Visual Studio saved a minidump(with heap) for you to get the details of the exception and the stack etc.

Interestingly, the dmp file is 1,974,765,413 bytes which makes me think that the heap grew as large as it could (or nearly so) since the normal process user-space limit is 2GB.  So maybe the program ran out of memory?

You can get the dump file at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68569791/HDDScan.7z
It compressed down to under 100 MB.

—John

[JDlugosz]

Additionally, I can't run HDDScan.exe anymore.  It launches, and stops before it ever creates a window.  No CPU usage, only a fraction of a second into its run-time.

There's only one thread, and here's the stack trace as well as can be determined without symbol information:

ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMultipleObjects+0xc0a
ntoskrnl.exe!KeAcquireSpinLockAtDpcLevel+0x732
ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0x19f
win32k.sys!memset+0x7a27
win32k.sys!memset+0x7ac1
win32k.sys!EngFntCacheLookUp+0x1718b
win32k.sys!memset+0x6b02
win32k.sys!XLATEOBJ_iXlate+0xddaf
win32k.sys!XLATEOBJ_iXlate+0xff03
win32k.sys!XLATEOBJ_iXlate+0xfd32
win32k.sys!W32pArgumentTable+0x306bf
win32k.sys!W32pArgumentTable+0x30b1f
win32k.sys!W32pArgumentTable+0x30f92
win32k.sys!W32pArgumentTable+0x314d3
win32k.sys!EngRestoreFloatingPointState+0x730f
win32k.sys!EngRestoreFloatingPointState+0x4ae5
ntoskrnl.exe!KeSynchronizeExecution+0x3a23
wow64win.dll+0x401fa
wow64win.dll+0x1ce36
wow64.dll!Wow64SystemServiceEx+0xd7
wow64cpu.dll!TurboDispatchJumpAddressEnd+0x2d
wow64.dll!Wow64SystemServiceEx+0x1ce
wow64.dll!Wow64LdrpInitialize+0x42b
ntdll.dll!RtlUniform+0x6e6
ntdll.dll!RtlCreateTagHeap+0xa7
ntdll.dll!LdrInitializeThunk+0xe
USER32.dll!LoadCursorW+0x39
uxtheme.dll!GetThemeBool+0x84e
uxtheme.dll!GetThemeBool+0x8c0
USER32.dll!SystemParametersInfoW+0x40
HDDScan.exe+0x2235da
HDDScan.exe+0x2ef950
HDDScan.exe+0x10b3ff
HDDScan.exe+0x10b03b
HDDScan.exe+0x10b010
HDDScan.exe+0x1158cd
HDDScan.exe+0x30f711
kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x12
ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x63
ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x36

HDDScan.exe seems to have called SystemParametersInfo which eventually waits on a Mutex.

See this post. Perhaps the crashed program left some phantom window somewhere (?) or left another app in a funny state trying to respond to your previous process.  But, I don't think you would be changing a setting... Maybe you were looking up which font to use for some UI element?  I don't know why that would be stuck, when other programs have no trouble starting up.