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I am runing Windows XP Prof Ver. 2002. Yesterday I downloaded SP 3. First
off, I know little about computers. I recently installed a new Western
Digital SCSI 500 GB hard drive. It installed and formated without problem
other than I could only do this as a dynamic Disk.

After transfering all files to this new drive (317 GB) and thinking
everinthing was fine, I erased the old files from 2 other hard drives they
were on.

About a day later I got this error:

{Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
\Device\LanmanRedirector (F:\$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.

The Bios has 2 drives set up as SATA, but after this error, I have to unplug
the WD drive, reboot to windows, shut down, re-connect and reboot a few times
before BIO's will "see" the WD drive.

The error appears everytime, and does not allow me to see the files on the
disk, but properties still has 317 GB used.

How can I save this file, stop this delayed write or fix this problem?

Might be useful:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=812937
--

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007


"BroncoAvsFan" <> wrote in message
news:A7D819FD-AA7D-41C8-8569-...
>I am runing Windows XP Prof Ver. 2002. Yesterday I downloaded SP 3. First
> off, I know little about computers. I recently installed a new Western
> Digital SCSI 500 GB hard drive. It installed and formated without problem
> other than I could only do this as a dynamic Disk.
>
> After transfering all files to this new drive (317 GB) and thinking
> everinthing was fine, I erased the old files from 2 other hard drives they
> were on.
>
> About a day later I got this error:
>
> {Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the
> file
> \Device\LanmanRedirector (F:\$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.
>
> The Bios has 2 drives set up as SATA, but after this error, I have to
> unplug
> the WD drive, reboot to windows, shut down, re-connect and reboot a few
> times
> before BIO's will "see" the WD drive.
>
> The error appears everytime, and does not allow me to see the files on the
> disk, but properties still has 317 GB used.
>
> How can I save this file, stop this delayed write or fix this problem?

"BroncoAvsFan" <> wrote in message
news:A7D819FD-AA7D-41C8-8569-...
> I am runing Windows XP Prof Ver. 2002. Yesterday I downloaded SP 3. First
> off, I know little about computers. I recently installed a new Western
> Digital SCSI 500 GB hard drive. It installed and formated without problem
> other than I could only do this as a dynamic Disk.
>
> After transfering all files to this new drive (317 GB) and thinking
> everinthing was fine, I erased the old files from 2 other hard drives they
> were on.
>
> About a day later I got this error:
>
> {Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the
file
> \Device\LanmanRedirector (F:\$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.
>
> The Bios has 2 drives set up as SATA, but after this error, I have to
unplug
> the WD drive, reboot to windows, shut down, re-connect and reboot a few
times
> before BIO's will "see" the WD drive.
>
> The error appears everytime, and does not allow me to see the files on the
> disk, but properties still has 317 GB used.
>
> How can I save this file, stop this delayed write or fix this problem?



Delayed write failure is typically caused by a defective harddrive.

Run the manufacturer's diagnostic and if it fails...
contact the manufacturer for an RMA.

I also advise to never use the dynamic drive feature, when you set the drive
up in disk management,
you must have missed something. It will make data recovery difficult or
impossible.

If you ever have important data...you must always have it backed up...
and you should NOT have erased the data from your old drives.

If you have not yet used your olds drives, the chances of recovering your
data from them
are still pretty good, but the new drive (as I mentioned) may be difficult
or impossible..

I have used utilities such a PC Inspector to recover deleted data with
pretty good results...

At any rate, I'd try for a data recovery on your old drives as the chance of
recovery is excellent if you have not yet written to them

On Oct 1, 11:01*pm, BroncoAvsFan
<BroncoAvs...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I am runing Windows XP Prof Ver. 2002. *Yesterday I downloaded SP 3. First
> off, I know little about computers. I recently installed a new Western
> Digital SCSI 500 GB hard drive. It installed and formated without problem
> other than I could only do this as a dynamic Disk.
>
> After transfering allfilesto this new drive (317 GB) and thinking
> everinthing was fine, I erased the oldfilesfrom 2 other hard drives they
> were on.

You can try to recover erased files with Easy File Undelete software:

http://www.munsoft.com/EasyFileUndelete/

It uses unique modern algorithms to recover files that other software
either recovers incorrectly or is unable to detect.

I belive I have solved my problem.

I first made sure my SCSI drives were not set up as RAID in BIOS.

In My Computer I right clicked on a IDE drive that I have installed in my
computer.
Clicked on Properties.
Went to Hardware tab, highlighted the IDE drive and clicked properties.
Went to Policies tab and disabled "Enable write caching on the disk"

When I got bios to "see" my WD drive, and windows loaded up, I again went to
the hardware tab under properies, highlighted the SCSI disks, clicked on the
Properties tab, and clicked on boxes "Disable tagged queuing" and "Disable
synchronous transfers". I did this to both SCSI disks on my computer.

None of the files on my WD drive had been erased, it was all still there.
My computer has been on for 4 days now without an error.

"Tom Ferguson" wrote:

> Might be useful:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=812937
> --
>
> Tom
> MSMVP 1998-2007
>
>
> "BroncoAvsFan" <> wrote in message
> news:A7D819FD-AA7D-41C8-8569-...
> >I am runing Windows XP Prof Ver. 2002. Yesterday I downloaded SP 3. First
> > off, I know little about computers. I recently installed a new Western
> > Digital SCSI 500 GB hard drive. It installed and formated without problem
> > other than I could only do this as a dynamic Disk.
> >
> > After transfering all files to this new drive (317 GB) and thinking
> > everinthing was fine, I erased the old files from 2 other hard drives they
> > were on.
> >
> > About a day later I got this error:
> >
> > {Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the
> > file
> > \Device\LanmanRedirector (F:\$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.
> >
> > The Bios has 2 drives set up as SATA, but after this error, I have to
> > unplug
> > the WD drive, reboot to windows, shut down, re-connect and reboot a few
> > times
> > before BIO's will "see" the WD drive.
> >
> > The error appears everytime, and does not allow me to see the files on the
> > disk, but properties still has 317 GB used.
> >
> > How can I save this file, stop this delayed write or fix this problem?
>
>

Good report back! And good fix. Using write caching should really only be
enabled when there is a battery backed cache controller in the picture,
IMHO. Too much risk of data loss and corruption.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

"BroncoAvsFan" <> wrote in message
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>I belive I have solved my problem.
>
> I first made sure my SCSI drives were not set up as RAID in BIOS.
>
> In My Computer I right clicked on a IDE drive that I have installed in my
> computer.
> Clicked on Properties.
> Went to Hardware tab, highlighted the IDE drive and clicked properties.
> Went to Policies tab and disabled "Enable write caching on the disk"
>
> When I got bios to "see" my WD drive, and windows loaded up, I again went
> to
> the hardware tab under properies, highlighted the SCSI disks, clicked on
> the
> Properties tab, and clicked on boxes "Disable tagged queuing" and "Disable
> synchronous transfers". I did this to both SCSI disks on my computer.
>
> None of the files on my WD drive had been erased, it was all still there.
> My computer has been on for 4 days now without an error.
>
> "Tom Ferguson" wrote:
>
>> Might be useful:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=812937
>> --
>>
>> Tom
>> MSMVP 1998-2007
>>
>>
>> "BroncoAvsFan" <> wrote in message
>> news:A7D819FD-AA7D-41C8-8569-...
>> >I am runing Windows XP Prof Ver. 2002. Yesterday I downloaded SP 3.
>> >First
>> > off, I know little about computers. I recently installed a new Western
>> > Digital SCSI 500 GB hard drive. It installed and formated without
>> > problem
>> > other than I could only do this as a dynamic Disk.
>> >
>> > After transfering all files to this new drive (317 GB) and thinking
>> > everinthing was fine, I erased the old files from 2 other hard drives
>> > they
>> > were on.
>> >
>> > About a day later I got this error:
>> >
>> > {Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the
>> > file
>> > \Device\LanmanRedirector (F:\$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.
>> >
>> > The Bios has 2 drives set up as SATA, but after this error, I have to
>> > unplug
>> > the WD drive, reboot to windows, shut down, re-connect and reboot a few
>> > times
>> > before BIO's will "see" the WD drive.
>> >
>> > The error appears everytime, and does not allow me to see the files on
>> > the
>> > disk, but properties still has 317 GB used.
>> >
>> > How can I save this file, stop this delayed write or fix this problem?
>>
>>