Do I need to replace my external hard drive?

[Egan]

Hi

I get a yellow triangular icon with a black exclamation point with the
message -- Windows -- Delayed Write Failed. Windows was unable to save all
the data for the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2. The data has been lost. This
error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network
connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

This happens each time I backed up successfully with Acronis True Image Home
11 and immediately turning off my IOMEGA 250 GB external hard drive.
Also this happens when I am not backing up if I copy data to or from the
external hard drive and this error message appears.

If I leave my IOMEGA external hard drive on and logout of Windows
administrator account and then immediately turning the external hard drive
then the same error message appears but with a white X with a red circular
icon.

Does anyone know what is wrong? How do I fix this error message?
Is there something wrong with my external hard drive? Do I need to replace
my external hard drive? I did not get this error message before.

I ran chkdsk on Drive C and IOMEGA external hard drive but found no errors.

Much help is appreciated.

Thanks

 

[What's in a Name?]

(e-mail address removed) aka Egan

Hi

I get a yellow triangular icon with a black exclamation point with the
message -- Windows -- Delayed Write Failed. Windows was unable to
save all the data for the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2. The data has
been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer
hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file
elsewhere.

This happens each time I backed up successfully with Acronis True
Image Home 11 and immediately turning off my IOMEGA 250 GB external
hard drive. Also this happens when I am not backing up if I copy
data to or from the external hard drive and this error message
appears.

If I leave my IOMEGA external hard drive on and logout of Windows
administrator account and then immediately turning the external hard
drive then the same error message appears but with a white X with a
red circular icon.

Does anyone know what is wrong? How do I fix this error message?
Is there something wrong with my external hard drive? Do I need to
replace my external hard drive? I did not get this error message
before.

I ran chkdsk on Drive C and IOMEGA external hard drive but found no
errors.

Much help is appreciated.

Thanks

Is this a new problem? Have you been able to create and save, to the
USB drive, a Image file? If you use the unplug or eject hardware icon
on your taskbar and then turn off the drive, does the error appear?

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[Rich Barry]

Have you checked with Iomega Tech Support? There may be an answer
there.
https://iomega-na-en.custhelp.com/c...p_prods=3&p_pv=1.3&prod_lvl1=3&p_sid=7i_yc-ij

 

[Lem]

Hi

I get a yellow triangular icon with a black exclamation point with the
message -- Windows -- Delayed Write Failed. Windows was unable to save all
the data for the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2. The data has been lost. This
error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network
connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

This happens each time I backed up successfully with Acronis True Image Home
11 and immediately turning off my IOMEGA 250 GB external hard drive.
Also this happens when I am not backing up if I copy data to or from the
external hard drive and this error message appears.

If I leave my IOMEGA external hard drive on and logout of Windows
administrator account and then immediately turning the external hard drive
then the same error message appears but with a white X with a red circular
icon.

Does anyone know what is wrong? How do I fix this error message?
Is there something wrong with my external hard drive? Do I need to replace
my external hard drive? I did not get this error message before.

I ran chkdsk on Drive C and IOMEGA external hard drive but found no errors.

Much help is appreciated.

Thanks

You should use "safely remove hardware" rather than just turning the
disk off. To prevent this sort of thing,

Open My Computer
Right click on any of the drive icons and select Properties
Click the Hardware tab
Select your *EXTERNAL* drive. Be careful here, no matter which icon you
right clicked on, *all* storage devices are shown in this list.
Click the Properties button
Click the Policies tab
Select the radio button for "Optimize for quick removal"
OK your way out.


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[Twayne]

(e-mail address removed) aka Egan

"immediately turning off "

That may be the problem. Delayed writes are, well, delayed. You are
probably turning the disk off while the computer is still turned on, and
the delayed writes have not happened yet. You don't mention whether you
use the Safely Remove Hardware button in the System Tray or not, but
doing so might fix your problem. It forces the completeion of the
writes before declaring it ready to be removed.
If the computer is still on, you should nto turn off the ext drive
without using the Safely Remove ... feature first.


my IOMEGA 250 GB external