USB Drive crapping out

[Lee Johnson]

Gang,
When I send a large file to or from a USB drive I have I get the following
message:

Windows - Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file G:\$Mft. 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.

Is it hardware, drivers or windows???

Thanks for any help

Lee Johnson
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Malke]

Gang,
When I send a large file to or from a USB drive I have I get the
following message:

Windows - Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file G:\$Mft. 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.

Is it hardware, drivers or windows???

How big a file? In what file systems are your computer and USB drive
formatted?

Malke

 

[CS]

Gang,
When I send a large file to or from a USB drive I have I get the following
message:

Windows - Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file G:\$Mft. 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.

Is it hardware, drivers or windows???

Thanks for any help

Lee Johnson
(e-mail address removed)

Sounds like hardware failure. What kind of USB drive is it? By the
way, it's not a good idea to post your real E-Mail address in a public
forum. That's asking for SPAM.

 

[Lee Johnson]

It is an Acom Data drive formated as NTFS and the file is 12GB in size.
It runs fine on my wife's laptop, so I am thinking either bios (USB is
on the mobo), or driver.

 

[CS]

OK. It's not a hardware error then with the drive itself. The Acom
Data drives are USB 2.0. Are you using the drive attached to a USB
2.0 port or 1.1 port? Moving a file that large requires quite a bit
of caching so if you're attempting to use it on a slow port I could
see where delayed writing might fail. However, if it's being used on
a USB 2.0 port, that may as you suspect, indicate a driver problem.

You can try turning off delayed writing entirely for the drive and see
if that helps. Of course it may take forever to move that 12gb file.
Open Device Manager and right click on the Acom drive. Select
properties, click on the policies tab. Remove the check mark from the
"Enable Write Caching on this Drive". Reboot and try again.

 

[Guest]

I've got the same problem(s). I've tested it with a variety of different
drives and external enclosures (cables and USB cards too) to eliminate
hardware as the problem. It seems to occur for me when the 12.5% section of
the drive that windows reserves for the MFT is reached.

Is your drive almost full or is only about 12.5% of its capacity free when
these errors occur?