"Windows Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file E:\$Mft"
started getting this error pop in in WinXP every 10 or 15 minutes for a couple days on my desktop..
i would click 'ok' and things seemed fine..
however i eventually googled it cuz it's not the most attractive (or comforting) mssg, and 2 potential solutions were:
a) right click the drive (in this case my E drive, where i have my documents and lots of my 'stuff'), and somewhere in advanced..properties..policies, turn off write caching (though this says it could decrease performance, yuck)
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/Windows-Delayed-Write-Failed-ftopict25717.html
b) it could be running out of room, even though it says you have lots of room--empty your recycle bin.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/22061/?o=60
so anyway, i did first a--and yet still got the error a bit later. figured i needed to reboot. but first i tried b)...
it took forever, but eventually i got control back of the computer. and rebooted..
and now it says my E drive is empty, and do i want to format it?
doh.
chkdsk finds a bunch of errors, checking file records, indexes, security descriptors.. then when "correcting errors in the volume Bitmap", it says:
"insufficient disk space to fix volume bitmap. chkdsk aborted".
great. a google of that error, and it sounds like chkdsk needs ~15% of a drive's capacity to be free to work.. in my case, it's a 250gb drive, with around 28gb free if i recall. doh.
and the beautiful thing--it sounds like i'm screwed. ie, no other fix that i could find. are you kidding me? or hopefully i'm missing something.
well, 2 options i want to explore that come to mind--
a) some (hopefully free/cheap?) file recovery software--if the data's mostly there intact (though i worry that my 'empty recycle bin(regular and norton protected bin)' may have ruined some stuff), maybe simple recovery software will work.
b) get a 300+gb drive.. somehow copy this whole drive to that one, and so i'll have 78gb free? and now chkdsk will work?
anyways... lemme know if you have any thoughts/suggestions, much appreciated!
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file E:\$Mft"
started getting this error pop in in WinXP every 10 or 15 minutes for a couple days on my desktop..
i would click 'ok' and things seemed fine..
however i eventually googled it cuz it's not the most attractive (or comforting) mssg, and 2 potential solutions were:
a) right click the drive (in this case my E drive, where i have my documents and lots of my 'stuff'), and somewhere in advanced..properties..policies, turn off write caching (though this says it could decrease performance, yuck)
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/Windows-Delayed-Write-Failed-ftopict25717.html
b) it could be running out of room, even though it says you have lots of room--empty your recycle bin.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/22061/?o=60
so anyway, i did first a--and yet still got the error a bit later. figured i needed to reboot. but first i tried b)...
it took forever, but eventually i got control back of the computer. and rebooted..
and now it says my E drive is empty, and do i want to format it?
doh.
chkdsk finds a bunch of errors, checking file records, indexes, security descriptors.. then when "correcting errors in the volume Bitmap", it says:
"insufficient disk space to fix volume bitmap. chkdsk aborted".
great. a google of that error, and it sounds like chkdsk needs ~15% of a drive's capacity to be free to work.. in my case, it's a 250gb drive, with around 28gb free if i recall. doh.
and the beautiful thing--it sounds like i'm screwed. ie, no other fix that i could find. are you kidding me? or hopefully i'm missing something.
well, 2 options i want to explore that come to mind--
a) some (hopefully free/cheap?) file recovery software--if the data's mostly there intact (though i worry that my 'empty recycle bin(regular and norton protected bin)' may have ruined some stuff), maybe simple recovery software will work.
b) get a 300+gb drive.. somehow copy this whole drive to that one, and so i'll have 78gb free? and now chkdsk will work?
anyways... lemme know if you have any thoughts/suggestions, much appreciated!