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by gtmead

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I am receiving the following error message

"windows - delayed write failed"

"Windows was unable to save all the data for the file......." "The data has been lost. This eerror may be cauesd by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. please try to save this file elsewhere."

Originally the problem was said to be the hard drive. But it has been replaced and since we used Norton Ghost to copy it around the error has followed. Does anyone have any ideas? The system we copied to is has the older style hard drives in it and the one that I got to quit blowing errors has the new style. Does anyone know of a registry setting or anything to turn on or off.

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by slyde phaeder

Several "delayed write failed" issues have been fixed in Windows Service Packs, so make sure you at the current level using Windows Update. If you had DMA enabled on a drive that didn't support DMA, you'd certainly have problems of some sort. In any case, check your Event Log for more details and see if Microsoft Knowledgebase Article ID Q159865 "How to Distinguish a Physical Disk Device from an Event Message" helps. That article is at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q159865.

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