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More info?)
Thank you, everybody, for answering.
Treeman, thank you very much, I will try the 2 suggested solutions from your
link. (I already disabled write caching, so the third suggested solution on
that page is not good for me. But hopefully the other two...) I'll let you
know if they helped. Thanks again.
Rich Barry, I am quite sure I do not have the SP2 update. But I haven't
needed it so far. And besides, that computer of mine is not connected to the
Internet. I use it for my work, and I am afraid of possible Internet
infections. So, how would I be able to get the SP2 without being connected to
the Internet, and do I really need it? (Will it help my problem, I mean? --
'Cause otherwise I'm set.)
About the USB question -- I have USB 1.1 ports, not 2.0. Other than that, I
have no idea how to reply to your question.
Rube, the FAT32 partition also gives me problems. For me, I don't think the
partition is causing the issue.
Thanks again, all. Talk to you later.
"Rube" wrote:
> I get nothing but problems when I partition a USB hard drive. If you
> absolutely MUST use it on multiple PC's, stick with fat32 (and live with the
> 4gb file size limit.)
>
> "Swordlord" <Swordlord@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news
8E6F544-8B87-4848-BA05-747B652A58A6@microsoft.com...
> > Hi.
> >
> > No, that's not the problem. It does show up in Windows Explorer and in My
> > Computer as drives F: and G: (I made two partitions, a FAT32 one and a
> NTFS
> > one, that's why). C: is the local hard-drive and D: and E: are DVD-RW and
> > CD-ROM.
> >
> > But anyway, so they show up as normal, but the thing is if I copy
> something
> > from the external HDD (F: or G
and try to paste it onto the internal HDD
> > (C
-- or the other way, from the internal to the external -- I get this
> > error message as soon as the bar which indicates the process of
> transferring
> > files shows the first green line. [You see what I'm trying to say, right?]
> >
> > The error messages I get are:
> > -->first, I get a pop-up error message with the red X thing, saying:
> > "Cannot copy <the file name is supposed to be here>. Cannot find the file
> > specified."
> > -->then, I get this yellow dialog box, popping up from the bottom of the
> > screen, where a yellow triangle with a black exclamation sign also
> appears:
> > "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."
> >
> > So, it wants to copy/move the files, but it cannot, for some strange
> reason.
> > Also, if I try to use Nero or Media Player for the files on the external
> > hard-drive, those programs also fail, because they cannot use the files on
> > the external hard-drive. Why is that?
> >
> > Write caching is disabled, so that's not it. At first, it was enabled, but
> > even after I disabled it the problem kept persisting.
> >
> > Could anyone help me on this, please? PLEASE!
> > --
> >
> > "Rich Barry" wrote:
> >
> > > Does the drive show up in MyComputer with a Letter assigned to it.
> If
> > > not rt click MyComputer>select Manage>Disk
> > > Management>External Drive. Rt click and assign a drive letter to it.
> > > "Swordlord" <Swordlord@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:8B7F283C-A81F-4E5C-B7D0-176A91DE89BA@microsoft.com...
> > > > Could anyone help me with the following issue, please?
> > > >
> > > > I bought a hard-drive which connects through USB. Although it works
> fine
> > > > with Windows 2000 and Millennium, on my Windows XP Professional
> computer I
> > > > get this error:
> > > > Whenever I connect it and I try to copy/move files (either from the
> > > > external
> > > > hard-drive to the internal hard-drive, or from the internal hard-drive
> to
> > > > the
> > > > external hard-drive), it tells me that it cannot copy <name of file>
> > > > because
> > > > it cannot find the file specified. And then I get a 'Windows Delayed
> Write
> > > > Failed' message. And I cannot move anything, even though the computer
> sees
> > > > the hard-drive just fine.
> > > >
> > > > From what I understood from the Internet, I presume it might be a
> security
> > > > issue. But I'll be damned if I know how to fix it.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone help me, please?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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