Hello. I've recently gotten a samsung usb move hard disk box (external hdd)
with 40GB. I receive the error msg "Delayed write failed" frequently however,
the result of which prevents me to play my mp3s or view files etc from the
hdd.

Please help. Thanks!

See the two links below. I have heard this happen from several people with
Maxtor drives. Are you uisng a Maxtor? If you cannot figure it out, can you
take it back and get you a different one? Those 40gigs are really cheap now
on CircuitCity.com and Newegg.com

http://bermangraphics.com/problems/d...itefailure.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330174&sd=RMVP

"SirWhale" <SirWhale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A57B127E-0F2F-4F62-9337-F7CDBA44ADD3@microsoft.com...
> Hello. I've recently gotten a samsung usb move hard disk box (external
> hdd)
> with 40GB. I receive the error msg "Delayed write failed" frequently
> however,
> the result of which prevents me to play my mp3s or view files etc from the
> hdd.
>
> Please help. Thanks!

Return it, get your refund, then install an internal HD. Western Digital has
been very reliable for me. Never had one to fail in over 10 years.

The problem now is I need a way to get out the files I have on the drive now,
before I start doing anything else (didnt leave a copy in my normal C drive).

"Mark Smith" wrote:

> See the two links below. I have heard this happen from several people with
> Maxtor drives. Are you uisng a Maxtor? If you cannot figure it out, can you
> take it back and get you a different one? Those 40gigs are really cheap now
> on CircuitCity.com and Newegg.com
>
> http://bermangraphics.com/problems/d...itefailure.htm
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330174&sd=RMVP
>
> "SirWhale" <SirWhale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A57B127E-0F2F-4F62-9337-F7CDBA44ADD3@microsoft.com...
> > Hello. I've recently gotten a samsung usb move hard disk box (external
> > hdd)
> > with 40GB. I receive the error msg "Delayed write failed" frequently
> > however,
> > the result of which prevents me to play my mp3s or view files etc from the
> > hdd.
> >
> > Please help. Thanks!
>
>
>

I fought the dreaded "Delayed Write Failed" erros over the past few
days. I deduced that my external USB drive was fine because it worked
with my PCs at work, just not on my PC at home.

My home PC is an older Dell, so I had USB 2.0 via an add-on PCI card
from Startech using the Ali USB chipset. I suspected this was the
culprit. Searching around the web, there were hints that using a USB
PCI card with the NEC chipset can sometimes solve this problem. I went
out and found one of those and it seems to have cured the problem for
me. It seems many adapter cards out there use the NEC chipset (Belkin,
Adaptec, Stratitec, etc...)