Balloon message on boot-up

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William B. Lurie

For second time, on cold boot I get a balloon message,
"Delayed write failed. Windows was unable to save
all the data for file C:\$Mft.
Try to save the file elsewhere".
I can't find the file, and I don't recognize
it as one of mine. Useful suggestions welcome....
Bill
 
Hi William,

That is the master file table for the drive, you should run a chkdsk /r on
the drive. You might also run a drive integrity check using a utility from
the manufacturer to check the state of the drive.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Rick said:
Hi William,

That is the master file table for the drive, you should run a chkdsk /r on
the drive. You might also run a drive integrity check using a utility from
the manufacturer to check the state of the drive.
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Thank you, Rick. I've done both and they come up clean.
Bill
 
Could you please give me more info on the OS/SP you are using?
Thanks
 
Rany said:
Could you please give me more info on the OS/SP you are using?
Thanks
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Using Windows XP---upgraded to SP2 several months ago.
Rick said to run chkdsk/r and Western Digital
diagnostics. Both failed to report any problems.
The balloon message has appeared twice in the past
week, but that's twice out of at least 20 cold starts.
 
You already know you are having problems with your hard drive. You state so
in numerous earlier posts.
Solve your hardware problem!

When I have a customer with sporadic problems such as you complain about I
install a new hard drive, reload the O/S as a CLEAN install. They start over
and I don't hear from them till they screw something up - yet again!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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