Re: USB "delayed write failed" Anyone knows why ?

Rasputin,

> I am curious also to ask how old is the computer?

I'm not sure, can't quite remember when I got it.  But at least five years, 
if not ten.

> The age of the computer and the condition it is in can't be ruled out.

You have / know of anything specific to look at ?

Mind you,
1) The problem disappeared as soon as I disabled that "delayed write"
2) I've ran memtest86 the other day, and it didn't show any errors

> I assume that USB stick is not old like the XP system because some cheap 
> ones can go wrong quite easily.

The USB stick was new.  The USB drive is  bit older, but has worked without 
a problem elsewhere as well as after disabeling that "delayed write".

I agree its a good idea to try to rule out stuff like that.  But as you can 
see by the above, I think that I can conclude that its not the hardware - at 
least not the obvious parts of it.

> There is nothing hanging here either because I know the answer will be 
> that there is nothing wrong with the computer or the flash drive.!!!!!

I cannot be a 100% sure of that ofcourse (absense of proof is not the same 
as proof of absense), but yes, thats my conclusion.

> It is all Microsoft's problem and unfortunately there is no documentation 
> of this anywhere.

D*mn!   They have servers briming with information, but nothing about this 
behaviour ?   That sucks.

Than again, they have been removing XP related info for a while now, so its 
possible it was there but is now gone.  That is why I posted here, hoping 
one of "the oldies" remembered something about it.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser