Delayed Write Failed

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Been receiving this message for a couple of days. File is H:\$Mft. Any
ideas on the cause?
 
-Nisko- said:
Been receiving this message for a couple of days. File is H:\$Mft. Any
ideas on the cause?
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How is that drive connected to the system?

HTH
-pk
 
| I was thinking the same thing...USB or Firewire device removed incorrectly.

If it was (USB 2.0 ext. HDD) removed incorrectly, how do you fix the Delayed
Write Error problem?
Remove all USB 2.0 drivers and reinstall them? Or buy another PCI card for USB
2.0 devices?
 
To remove a USB (or Firewire) drive, double-click the Safely Remove
Hardware icon in the system tray and follow the directions that appear.
 
Been receiving this message for a couple of days. File is H:\$Mft. Any
ideas on the cause?
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I get this on my machine 9 times out of 10 when resuming from hibernate.
The drive at fault is an IDE drive that's only used for data. The system
boots from an SATA drive.

If I let device manager redetect the hardware, the drive is immediately
added back and functions as usual.

Not the end of the world, but rather annoying nonetheless. The board is an
ASUS A8N-E.
 
USB - but...I don't recall removing the drive (unplugging it). In any case,
if that's the problem, is it fixable? It's only used for my backup so -
reformatting is not a problem.
 
"It's only used for my backup so - reformatting is not a problem."

Huh?

In a nutshell: Writes to USB drives are cached (saved to a temporary
location in the drive) instead of being written directly to the drive.
The actual write to the drive occurs later, when the drive is not being
accessed. That's what a "delayed write" is.

This is done to save time: It takes longer to write to an external drive
than to an internal drive. If the system had to wait for the data to be
written to the external drive before moving on, your computer would run
slower.

When the data is cached, the USB drive reports back to the OS that the
data has been written - but it hasn't. If the delayed write is then
interrupted - for example, by pulling out the drive or interrupting the
power - the cached data won't actually get written to the external
drive. But the OS was told that it was written. That's a problem.

At the very best, some of the data on the USB drive is corrupted. At
worst, the USB drive won't be accessible. In either case, there is no
recovery. The cached data is gone.
 
Oh, now I understand. Thanks. I've been having a problem with svchost.exe
(one of the instances) hogging almost all my CPU resources. Can't seem to
solve it - but, because my machine has been so slow, it probably accounts
for the delayed write failure.
 
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