"write delay failed" msg

[Taras_96]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a problem with a particular partition. E drive keeps
returning "write delay failed" messages. When i try to a create New
Folders in that drive, it returns with an error message which reads
"unable to create the folder 'New Folder' The drive cannot find the
sector requested." A week ago I could create new folders, but it
would have trouble writing data to the disk (eg: large downloads would
stop part way through with the 'write delay failed' message). Now I
can't even create new folders.

I'm using Windows XP Professional with a single hard drive. The other
two partitions are working fine. Anyone know what might be the
problem?

Thanks

Taras

 

[M.I.5¾]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a problem with a particular partition. E drive keeps
returning "write delay failed" messages. When i try to a create New
Folders in that drive, it returns with an error message which reads
"unable to create the folder 'New Folder' The drive cannot find the
sector requested." A week ago I could create new folders, but it
would have trouble writing data to the disk (eg: large downloads would
stop part way through with the 'write delay failed' message). Now I
can't even create new folders.

I'm using Windows XP Professional with a single hard drive. The other
two partitions are working fine. Anyone know what might be the
problem?

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I am assuming that your E: drive is a partition on an internal drive. It
sounds like something has got corrupted on this drive. The first thing to
do is to perform a check on this partition. From 'My computer' right click
in your E: drive and select the 'tools' tab and then the 'Check Now' button.