Comments on: Windows – Delayed Write Failed – Solved!

By: Gi

Gi — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:05:37 +0000

@everyone: PLEASE READ Windows Delayed Write Failed – Ultimate Solutions , everything is explained, with many solutions! And please do not post comments here anymore.
Thanks for your continuous support.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:02:20 +0000

I am having exactly same problem. Request the author of the article to solve this query. Thanks.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:56:00 +0000

Hi! ,
I am also having the similar problems with my Transcend StoreJet 25M. I took a backup of by Dell Inspiron some 8 months back and since then never used the drive. Now when I tried to attached it to any other computer (Inspiron is in repair shop now and so can’t use the same), although I was able to see it as F: drive, was not able to access. Tried running chkdsk f: /r, it worked for some steps, but ended incomplete with soem “Unrecognized Error” message. Finally as I had mos of my stuff in my new Laptop, I tried to do a full format using disc manager ( Windows XP SP3). It ran for hours with no ending, so had to break in between. Then I ran a quick format and wow! I was able to access the drive. Also could copy some small files with success on it. But as soon as I tried to copy a bigger file I get a “delayed write” error, though file gets copied. But then the drive gets locked.

As suggested above, thought of setting the LowerFilters. But before that I downloaded and ran IOCTL utility, to my surprise for this drive the MaxTransferSize is specified only 65536, which is less than 128Kb. Not sure whether setting this to 128k will help or not.
Adapter Details
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Version: 32
Size: 32
MaxTransferLength: 65536
MaximumPhysicalPages: 17
AlignmentMask: 0
AdapterUsesPio: 0
AdapterScansDown: 0
CommandQueueing: 0
AcceleratedTransfer: 0
BusType: 190471
BusMajorVersion: 0
BusMinorVersion: 60833

By: Mari

Mari — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:19:40 +0000

I have experienced the same thing with my Seagate 500. I backed up my entire
Owners Document and Programs from XP and just happened to check a few of the
files and nothing works. I’m getting the exact error message and am heartsick as
I was counting on this to salvage some of the most important files of my life.

Mari

By: martin

martin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:14:03 +0000

I have a 500GB seagate external portable hard drive with similar problems. So far this is what I have done:

1)defragmented the external drive
2)ran chkdsk e:\r for 7 to 8 hours
3)reviewed the seagate log
4)tested my hard disk using seagate manager
5)contacted seagate and reported the varioius error messages found in the log. Seagate had me uninstall all of the seagate software on my laptop reboot and reinstall all of the seagate software.
6)switched USB cables

So far all of the above has not corrected the windows – delayed write failed. Windows was unable to save all the date for the file E: |Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by failure of tyour computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save the file elsewhere.

When I have the delayed write failed I usually cannot go through remove hardware as the drive continues to spin. I have to pull out the usb cable. I also close any programs like itunes that I was using to save files onto my esternal drive. I run disk clean up and start all over again. I do not know how to correct the problem of the delayed write and would appreciate any information.

I read about installing a filter or setting the cache to 0 above but have not yet tried those methods. Not sure how to make those alterations and am hesistant to anything further until I can diagnose the problem. I realize that I could try lots of things but the trial and error methos that take a lot of time. How can I diagnose the problem causing the delayed write? If there are no diagnostic methods what method has the greatest likelihood of success after doing the above steps?

Also I have automatic backups of my laptop hard drive which is about 75 GB. I sometimes delete all the backup files and let it backup again. This too has not altered the problem as with a temporary increase of 75 GB in free space the problem occurs.

Again any insight in diagnosing and correcting the delayed write is appreciated

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:27:04 +0000

I have found two workarounds for my external USB harddrive that experiences this problem.

- Increasing the ‘PCI bus latency timer’ from 32 to 128 greatly reduced the frequency of “delayed write fails” from an average of once per day, to once per week. My theory behind this is, since the USB ports are intergrated on the motherboard, they are essentially also PCI devices and thus affected by this setting. The ‘PCI bus latency timer’ controls the amount of time that a single device can reserve the PCI bus; it’s a trade off between performance and stability by increasing this value.

- Once a “delayed write fail” DOES occur, I normally had to reboot to make the drive reappear in Windows. I’ve now discovered that if I remove the USB controller (‘USB root hub’) from the Windows device manager (found in Control Panel -> System) and then let Windows scan for new hardware (thus reinstalling the device), my USB harddisk reappears and works again. The reason why this works is because this will reinitialize the USB ports, just like an ordinary reboot would.

By: Augustin

Augustin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:41:23 +0000

THANK YOU x 100 times!
I have a Seagate Free Agent Pro (1TB) and i couldn’t solve the ‘delay write failed’ until now. For me worked the cacheset.zip solution describet by you, amazing! Thank you again!

By: funsohng

funsohng — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:35:04 +0000

hmm im in same situation with you, a seagate 250gig and some random one with 1TB. they were both on the same PCI extention card, and i was keep getting this message, so i thought maybe the USB port is faulty, so i put it into some other port, and running virus scan on it, and it seems it’s working fine as of now.
hopefully it will continue to work fine

By: Gi

Gi — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:24:47 +0000

@DO: Please Read the latest post on this subject at : http://www.gibni.com/windows-delayed-write-failed-solutions

By: Francesc

Francesc — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:20:06 +0000

I had this problem with an external USB HD drive. I noticed that the cause of the problem was I had two external drives connected to the same USB PCI extension card. I just exchanged USB slots with the webcam, which was connected to one of the original USB ports on the mainboard. I seems that two HD on the same card is too much effort to work properly. I also works much faster now.

Hope that helps.