Guest Anton Geel Posted September 15, 2008 Posted September 15, 2008 Hi. I have a 250GB external hard drive as a backup drive. Whenever I try to save to this device, I keep getting a write delay failed message. There is nothing wrong with the drive because it works fine on any other pc. I can access all the info on the drive and copy from the drive with no problems. I'm using XP Home Edition with SP2. The drive is plugged into a USB slot (USB 2 enabled) Please help, it's driving me crazy.
Guest RJK Posted September 15, 2008 Posted September 15, 2008 Re: Write Delayed Failed Message Tried disabling "write caching" for the ext. USB hd ? Control Panel | System | Hardware | Dvice Manager | Disk Drives | right-click the required drive | properties | Policies Tab | clear check box regards, Richard "Anton Geel" <AntonGeel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4E20F93C-BFF0-443D-9D65-7FFB3393A8C7@microsoft.com... > Hi. > I have a 250GB external hard drive as a backup drive. Whenever I try to > save > to this device, I keep getting a write delay failed message. There is > nothing > wrong with the drive because it works fine on any other pc. I can access > all > the info on the drive and copy from the drive with no problems. I'm using > XP > Home Edition with SP2. The drive is plugged into a USB slot (USB 2 > enabled) > > Please help, it's driving me crazy.
Guest Anton Geel Posted September 15, 2008 Posted September 15, 2008 Re: Write Delayed Failed Message Thank You for the advice, but unfortunately it did solve the problem. Thanks anyway. "RJK" wrote: > Tried disabling "write caching" for the ext. USB hd ? > > Control Panel | System | Hardware | Dvice Manager | Disk Drives | > right-click the required drive | properties | Policies Tab | clear check box > > regards, Richard > > > "Anton Geel" <AntonGeel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:4E20F93C-BFF0-443D-9D65-7FFB3393A8C7@microsoft.com... > > Hi. > > I have a 250GB external hard drive as a backup drive. Whenever I try to > > save > > to this device, I keep getting a write delay failed message. There is > > nothing > > wrong with the drive because it works fine on any other pc. I can access > > all > > the info on the drive and copy from the drive with no problems. I'm using > > XP > > Home Edition with SP2. The drive is plugged into a USB slot (USB 2 > > enabled) > > > > Please help, it's driving me crazy. > > >
Guest Anton Geel Posted September 15, 2008 Posted September 15, 2008 Re: Write Delayed Failed Message Thank You for the advice, but unfortunately it did not solve the problem. Thanks anyway. > > "RJK" wrote: > > > Tried disabling "write caching" for the ext. USB hd ? > > > > Control Panel | System | Hardware | Dvice Manager | Disk Drives | > > right-click the required drive | properties | Policies Tab | clear check box > > > > regards, Richard > > > > > > "Anton Geel" <AntonGeel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:4E20F93C-BFF0-443D-9D65-7FFB3393A8C7@microsoft.com... > > > Hi. > > > I have a 250GB external hard drive as a backup drive. Whenever I try to > > > save > > > to this device, I keep getting a write delay failed message. There is > > > nothing > > > wrong with the drive because it works fine on any other pc. I can access > > > all > > > the info on the drive and copy from the drive with no problems. I'm using > > > XP > > > Home Edition with SP2. The drive is plugged into a USB slot (USB 2 > > > enabled) > > > > > > Please help, it's driving me crazy. > > > > > >
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