jonasmcguire

Hi

I recently bought the following parts, and my friend assembled them for me:

CPU Intel E6550
MB Gigabyte GA-N650 SLI-DS4L
Graphics Card Gigabyte 512MB 8600GT
2x1G Twin 667 mhz Kingston RAM and 2x512MB PC5300 DDR2 RAM
80GB Seagate harddrive.

About 4 months ago I bought a Western Digital 320GB SATA hard drive and installed it as a 2nd hard drive in my old computer, which worked fine. It has all my date on it, so I wanted to install it in my new system as a 2nd hard drive.

It worked for a day, until I tried to move a file from the E: (second) drive. A yellow exclamation mark pops up in the bottom right hand corner with this message:


Windows - Delayed write failed

Windows was unable to save all the date for the file E:\Filename. The date has been lost. THis error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection


Followed by:



Windows - Delayed write failed

Windows was unable to save all the data for the file E:\$BitMap. The date 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.


It will work for a few more seconds before completely hanging, with this message in the middle of the screen:

Windows - Delayed write failed

Windows was unable to save all the data for the file E:\System Volume Information\tracking.log. The date 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.



I wiped E: and reformatted, but the problem exists. My friend is out of ideas and has never seen this before. I will happily buy a new 2nd hard drive if this will fix the problem but don't want to spend the money if the problem is something else.


Any help would be greatly appreciated


Thanks

Deleted090308

Hi, welcome to TSF.

Turn "Enable write caching on the disk" off.
Please read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330174