Windows - Delayed write failed

[Mike G]

Trying a USB 2.0 drive on my xp-p machine with the above failure. USB 2.0
card is new and being used in a spare slot. (My MB only has 1.0 usb).
Originally tried the external drive so I could save images of HD. Any help
appreciated. Mike

[Tom Barclay]

"Mike G" > wrote in message
...
> Trying a USB 2.0 drive on my xp-p machine with the above failure. USB 2.0
> card is new and being used in a spare slot. (My MB only has 1.0 usb).
> Originally tried the external drive so I could save images of HD. Any
help
> appreciated. Mike

I also used to have the Delayed Write Failed problem on one of my HDDs, a
Maxtor which was formatted using Maxblast software. Some research came up
with three common items, Maxtor drives, Maxblast software, and some ATI
drivers (don't know specifically which). Most of the people experiencing
this problem had a combination of at least two of those items. I eventually
reformatted my drive using the WinXP CD instead of Maxblast, and reinstalled
Windows. The error hasn't shown up since.

[CWatters]

Check it's going at USB 2.0 speed ok.

The following is unlikely to be the cause of your problem but you never
know. I was never sure if the problem I had was with excess network or USB
traffic....

Colin

I was backing up my wifes PC to a USB 2.0 drive on my PC over the lan....
I found my backup would abort half way through with a "Delayed Write
Failure".

This is tricky to explain. The problem seems to occur because shared folders
can cause excess network traffic. I read somewhere that every time the
content
of a shared folder is changed messages are sent to all computers/accounts
that
have access to the share (eg every time Drive Image appends a byte or two of
data to the backup multiple messages are sent out and this slows down the
LAN (USB?) to the point that a "write buffer" gets overwritten).

The fix for me was to restructure the folders I was using to hold backups
and "push the share down a level"....

Before...

I shared a folder called "Backups" on PC1 and arranged for PC1 to write to
subfolder "Backups\PC1" and PC2 to write to Backups\PC2 etc.

After...

I removed the share from "Backups" and shared Backups\PC2 only. (Backups\PC1
does not need to be shared).

This seems to have cured the problem.



"Shooter" > wrote in message
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If this isn't the right group - a pointer in the right direction would be
much appreciated.

I'm trying to back up an image of one critical content XP computer over my
home network to another newer XP computer. The image file is supposed to go
into a 'shared folder on the second computer.

The network seems to work fine, and I can create and delete a file in the
shared folder intended to hold the image backup.

But Drive Image 7 keeps saying - 'The Media is write protected' - even if I
try to produce an image file on the original computer.

I just don't get it - maybe it has something to do with accounts. I'm the
admin on both computers.

Many thanks







"Tom Barclay" > wrote in message
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> "Mike G" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Trying a USB 2.0 drive on my xp-p machine with the above failure. USB
2.0
> > card is new and being used in a spare slot. (My MB only has 1.0 usb).
> > Originally tried the external drive so I could save images of HD. Any
> help
> > appreciated. Mike
>
> I also used to have the Delayed Write Failed problem on one of my HDDs, a
> Maxtor which was formatted using Maxblast software. Some research came up
> with three common items, Maxtor drives, Maxblast software, and some ATI
> drivers (don't know specifically which). Most of the people experiencing
> this problem had a combination of at least two of those items. I
eventually
> reformatted my drive using the WinXP CD instead of Maxblast, and
reinstalled
> Windows. The error hasn't shown up since.
>
>

[Alex Nichol]

Mike G wrote:

>Trying a USB 2.0 drive on my xp-p machine with the above failure. USB 2.0
>card is new and being used in a spare slot. (My MB only has 1.0 usb).
>Originally tried the external drive so I could save images of HD. Any help
>appreciated.

Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager
Look for the device, Double click it. Look (probably a Policies page)
for a box 'Enable write caching on this drive' and uncheck it. It
likely does not agree with USB, and it is better to have it working even
if you lose the small extra efficiency


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[John .]

I was having this exact same problem/message with a hard drive I put
in a USB 2.0 enclosure yesterday. At first I thought it was the
chipset inside the enclosure box controller.

I JUST NOW solved the problem though: I put a Belkins USB 2 PCI card
in the PC (It is Windows XP with onboard USB2 with Asus P4S533-E
motherboard). It has 4 external usb ports and one internal. (I think
they make a 2 port version also).

I also downloaded an updated NEC USB driver for XP from the Belkin
website for their pi card.

I could consistently produce the problem with the USB2 cable connected
to the USB 2 port going to my motherboard. I can NOT make the problem
occur on the USB 2 port on the Belkin PCI card!

Yea for Belkin!

"Mike G" > wrote:

>Trying a USB 2.0 drive on my xp-p machine with the above failure. USB 2.0
>card is new and being used in a spare slot. (My MB only has 1.0 usb).
>Originally tried the external drive so I could save images of HD. Any help
>appreciated. Mike
>

[CWatters]

"John ." > wrote in message
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> I could consistently produce the problem with the USB2 cable connected
> to the USB 2 port going to my motherboard. I can NOT make the problem
> occur on the USB 2 port on the Belkin PCI card!
>
> Yea for Belkin!

Humm, most of these card use the same NEC chip so I wonder if the Belkin
drivers would work for other makes of card.

[John .]

The Belkin PCI USB 2.0 card I used was the F5U220 and here is the link
to the drivers for it. I'm not sure if the updated XP driver was
needed or not, but I updated it before using the card.

http://web.belkin.com/support/download/download.asp?download=F5U220&lang=1&mode=

John

"CWatters" > wrote:
>"John ." > wrote in message
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>
>> I could consistently produce the problem with the USB2 cable connected
>> to the USB 2 port going to my motherboard. I can NOT make the problem
>> occur on the USB 2 port on the Belkin PCI card!
>>
>> Yea for Belkin!
>
>Humm, most of these card use the same NEC chip so I wonder if the Belkin
>drivers would work for other makes of card.
>