Delayed Write Failed

For some time, I've had trouble after I remove flash drives. I'll download a driver for a computer and when I put it in there, I find the data to not be on the disk. This machine will then tell me blah blah something something "Delayed Write Failed" "network connection yadda yadda." This is sometimes happening to my two USB hard drives as well during writing to the disk(s). I reinstalled my USB driver and I always "safely" remove the devices before unplugging them. Looking around for Windows 2000 support for this issue, I really only found one source...

I did some reading on Microsoft's support site regarding this, found here. This concerns flash media removal (but pertains to Windows 2000). As it states, it suggest SP4, which I have. This shows the general troubleshooting for it on XP.

Quote:

Turn off the "Enable write caching on the disk" feature:

Note If you turn off the "Enable write caching on the disk" feature, your disk performance may decrease. Because of this, you may want to monitor system performance after you complete the following procedure.
a. In Windows Explorer, right-click your hard-disk, and then click Properties.
b. Click the Hardware tab.
c. Click the hard disk, and then click Properties.
d. Click the Policies tab.
e. Click to clear the Enable write caching on the disk check box, and then click OK two times.
f. Repeat steps c-e for each hard disk that is installed in your computer.

Obviously I cannot do this in 2000, as there is no "Policies" tab. Reading on, I happen to meet all of the criteria:

Quote:

Delayed Write Failure
Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP. This problem does not occur on all systems. The key ingredients that lead to data corruption may include:
• System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common)
• Large NTFS disk volumes and multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays)
• AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default)
• Large file transfers. This problem occurs when the computer runs out of system page table entries. Windows determines (at boot time) the default number of page table entries to assign, based on the amount of system memory available.

Although it then suggests to have the "Programs" (Application) radio button checked, I've got this covered.

So in short, I'm not sure what to do and it bothers me to see that my data needs to be re-sent to the drives to ensure it's written. I fear possible disk corruption and hope that this error is not related to such troublesome things.
Suggestions?

How ya doing, buddy?

The option for enabling the disk write cache is present in Windows 2000. Just go into your device manager, right click on the drive (expand "Disk Drives) and the hit the "Disk Properties" tab. The radio button should be there.

And I have found that disabling this for external storage is always a good idea, as one can never be too careful about accidentally unplugging the device. In your case though, it may prove to be a workaround to the problem.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Excrono

The option for enabling the disk write cache is present in Windows 2002. Just go into your device manager, right click on the drive (expand "Disk Drives) and the hit the "Disk Properties" tab. The radio button should be there.

And I have found that disabling this for external storage is always a good idea, as one can never be too careful about accidentally unplugging the device. In your case though, it may prove to be a workaround to the problem.

I swore I checked....I'll give it a whirl on the USB drives and I'll post again if I have the trouble again. Other suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.