Write Delay failed

[kandinsky63]

Hello

Recently I tried to copy a number of folders full of photo files from my
secondary hard drive to a CF memory card via an external 2.0 USB card
reader. One image folder was 1.5GB; another was 311MB. Occasionally, during
the copying I will get an error message stating the a particular image file
could not be found and this was normally accompanied with another error
message from the system tray stating the following:

"Windows - Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \Device\HardDiskVolume"

I have winXp (SP3), 1.5GB RAM, 3.06GHz Celeron CPU, motherboard is an Asrock
P4VM800, 3 hard drives where the OS is on a 300GB sata, the image hard drive
is 40GB.

Can someone please advise what is going on and the solution to this.
Thanks

[smlunatick]

On Dec 28, 9:53*am, "kandinsky63" > wrote:
> Hello
>
> Recently I tried to copy a number of folders full of photo files from my
> secondary hard drive to a CF memory card via an external 2.0 USB card
> reader. One image folder was 1.5GB; another was 311MB. *Occasionally, during
> the copying I will get an error message stating the a particular image file
> could not be found and this was normally accompanied with another error
> message from the system tray stating the following:
>
> * "Windows - Delayed Write Failed
> Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \Device\HardDiskVolume"
>
> I have winXp (SP3), 1.5GB RAM, 3.06GHz Celeron CPU, motherboard is an Asrock
> P4VM800, 3 hard drives where the OS is on a 300GB sata, the image hard drive
> is 40GB.
>
> Can someone please advise what is going on and the solution to this.
> Thanks

What is the CF card format? I have seen this occur with FAT formatted
ones, especially if they formatted in a camera.

[kandinsky63]

I initially tried to copy onto the CF as formatted straight out the camera.
When I started to see these error messages, i reformatted the CF card with
XP using FAT32.
"smlunatick" > wrote in message
...
On Dec 28, 9:53 am, "kandinsky63" > wrote:
> Hello
>
> Recently I tried to copy a number of folders full of photo files from my
> secondary hard drive to a CF memory card via an external 2.0 USB card
> reader. One image folder was 1.5GB; another was 311MB. Occasionally,
> during
> the copying I will get an error message stating the a particular image
> file
> could not be found and this was normally accompanied with another error
> message from the system tray stating the following:
>
> "Windows - Delayed Write Failed
> Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
> \Device\HardDiskVolume"
>
> I have winXp (SP3), 1.5GB RAM, 3.06GHz Celeron CPU, motherboard is an
> Asrock
> P4VM800, 3 hard drives where the OS is on a 300GB sata, the image hard
> drive
> is 40GB.
>
> Can someone please advise what is going on and the solution to this.
> Thanks

What is the CF card format? I have seen this occur with FAT formatted
ones, especially if they formatted in a camera.

[smlunatick]

On Dec 28, 3:18*pm, "kandinsky63" > wrote:
> I initially tried to copy onto the CF as formatted straight out the camera.
> When I started to see these error messages, i reformatted the CF card with
> XP using FAT32."smlunatick" > wrote in message
>
> ...
> On Dec 28, 9:53 am, "kandinsky63" > wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello
>
> > Recently I tried to copy a number of folders full of photo files from my
> > secondary hard drive to a CF memory card via an external 2.0 USB card
> > reader. One image folder was 1.5GB; another was 311MB. Occasionally,
> > during
> > the copying I will get an error message stating the a particular image
> > file
> > could not be found and this was normally accompanied with another error
> > message from the system tray stating the following:
>
> > "Windows - Delayed Write Failed
> > Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
> > \Device\HardDiskVolume"
>
> > I have winXp (SP3), 1.5GB RAM, 3.06GHz Celeron CPU, motherboard is an
> > Asrock
> > P4VM800, 3 hard drives where the OS is on a 300GB sata, the image hard
> > drive
> > is 40GB.
>
> > Can someone please advise what is going on and the solution to this.
> > Thanks
>
> What is the CF card format? *I have seen this occur with FAT formatted
> ones, especially if they formatted in a camera.

It could be that the camera formats the CF card to FAT (known now has
FAT16.)