Balloon message on boot-up

[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

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

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

 

[William B. Lurie]

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.

Thank you, Rick. I've done both and they come up clean.
Bill

 

[Rany ElHousieny [MSFT]]

Could you please give me more info on the OS/SP you are using?
Thanks

 

[William B. Lurie]

Could you please give me more info on the OS/SP you are using?
Thanks

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.

 

[Richard Urban]

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!