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"Windows - Delayed Write Failure"

earthman

Golden Member
I am getting this error alot lately...it started suddenly. This is an all-SCSI system...any ideas whats happening? Microsoft says bad IDE cables, but I'm not using IDE. This is WIndows XP Pro.
 
Three identical 18G IBM hard drives, LVD Ultra 160 models, NEC SCSI CDROM, and Iomega SCSI Zip drive, on an Adaptec 29160 adapter. Hard drives are on the LVD channel, the other devices are on the legacy channel. This setup has been working for about a year.
Now I am getting corrupted files as well...is my main drive failing?
 
Try downloading the drive fitness/diagnostics from the manufacturer of your hard drives, and see if they pass. If they pass, then unhook the cdrom and the zip drive, and see if it's associated with that channel.
 
Its not. It lists alot of files after it boots that it can't save, mainly "F:\$Mft". F: is my system drive for XP.
I have tried a different cable, repositioning the drives, changing pci slots, disabling write-back caching, no luck with anything.

UPDATE apparently solved with a fresh install. Seems to be a by-product of some registry tweaking I did a couple days ago. I guess I will be more careful in the future.
 
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