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Answer» I have an external Western Digital My Passport Essentials 070a HDD and I have a lot of critical data/backups on it. I recently, just after having connected it via USB, saw Windows notifications of "Delayed Write Failed" for almost every folder on the drive. I received 40 notifications before someone who was walking a little too close pulled the plug. After that, when I tried to connect the drive to the PC, it freezes, even my mouse becomes nonresponsive. This is my school PC, so I cannot download anything onto it, HP Compaq TC4400 with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Service Pack 3. Thanks in advance to any help I can receive.Disconnect the drive... Thanks to Computer Commando for trying to help, but Registry Editor and all MMC snap-ins are restricted by group policy. I can bypass this by doing a "jailbreak" of sorts, but I would not be able to save changes in the case that I did this.If the computer belongs to the school & you are not granted full access, there's nothing else you can do, other than contacting the school's IT department & let them deal with it.I believe it is a problem with the drive, it has occurred with every computer I have tried to connect it to.All Windows XP computers?Indeed. Should I try a different OS?I'm not sure, but the issue may be limited to WinXP & certain computers using it. I have seen the same error on a WinXP machine from time to time. Formatting of the USB device ALWAYS fixed it, but that is not practical in your case. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330174 It would certainly be worth trying it on a computer with a different OS. Are the computers all laptops? Is the WD drive Notebok (2.5) or Desktop (3.5)? i.e. 2.5 drives are self powered, 3.5 drives have their own power supply. I have several WD USB notebook drives. 1 older used to exhibit the same behavior, been reformatted FAT32 a few times.I tried it on another computer running XP, had a little more luck. Was able to list folder contents for the drive, but then rendered unable to actually read anything, and after CLOSING Explorer Window, the computer had the CPU/memory usage shown below. I also tried it on a computer running Win7, got a warning that the drive needed to be formatted before being usable. Computer_Commando: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=440#tab3 - but it's a 300GB model. Another thing: Windows Delayed Write Failed to:
But at the same time: Disk Write Caching disabled for WD My Passport 070a Quote IMAGENAME PID CPU MEMNTFS file table is corrupted. Try chkdsk e: /f from the command prompt on the WD drive. If no success, there are other tools to try. |
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