Re: USB "delayed write failed" Anyone knows why ?
Frank Slootweg <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general |
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| Organization | NOYB |
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[Disclaimer: Here goes nothing! :-)] R.Wieser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > On a machine runnung XPsp3 : > > A while ago tried to copy a couple of 1...4 GB files to an USB stick, and > it threw the "delayed write failed" error (after a couple of hundred MByte), > after which the machine froze and I had to power-cycle it to get it to > respond again (not even the task-manager wanted to come up). A quick Google search (see below) reveals that besides the basic error ("Windows-Delayed Write Failed"), the system reports which file had/'caused' the error. If so, was that a file on the USB stick or on a/the hard drive? If on the USB stick, did you test the USB stick for errors? (I have Windows 11, so my built-in tools are limited :-(, but AFAIR, Windows XP still had 'sector' scan tools.) > A bit of googeling gave me the answer : unticking "Enable write caching on > the disk" - even though that was in a section that was grayed out because > its parent, "Optimize for performance", wasn't selected ("Optimize for quick > removal" was). > > No, the question is not why I had to untick something in a grayed-out > section, don't worry. :-) > > My question is even worse than that : > > Does anyone know (or have a link to an MS article to) why that the "delayed > writing" (which I assume was still doing its job) causes such a big problem > ? With "such a big problem", do you mean the machine freezing, which is indeed a big problem, or something else? The (first) document I found, indeed also talks about a hang, but that involved a file on the HDD. 'Error message on Windows XP, "Windows-Delayed Write Failed, windows was enable to save all the data for the file' <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/error-message-on-windows-xp-windows-delayed-write/11545d85-783e-40cd-beeb-c31997661e64> (searched on "delayed write failed windows xp") (The green "[ (V) Answer ]" bar in that document implies that a hard drive error was the cause, but the OP never specifically confirmed that.) > And don't worry, its just curiosity. There is nothing hanging on the > answer. Phew! :-)