Error: Windows - Delayed Write Failed

[Mope]

I have an ABIT KT7a-RAID with no arrays but a 45 GB Maxtor on one channel and an 80 GB Maxtor on the other channel. Every once in a while I get this error:

Windows - Delayed Write Failed. Windows was unable to save all the data for the file xxxx. The data has been lost...

When I click OK or X then another window with the same message (different program) pops up until I reboot. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing the problem? I just installed the lastest drivers from Highpoint so I will see if that fixes it but since the problem is intermittent I don't have any real way of testing the resolution. I am also not using a page file but have 512 MB and haven't ever reached its limit. I googled around but couldn't find anything helpful. Hopefully someone has some pointers of where to check now.

[cookin chef]

Just in case, it may not be the problem, but download powermax from <a href="http://www.maxtor.com" target="_blank">www.maxtor.com</a> and put it on a bootlable disk. Maybe take your hd's off the highpoint controller and onto the regular ide controller because powermax might not see them properly on that controller.

use powermax to do a quick and thorough test to see if any errors get detected. hope this helps.

[NooNoo]

I have an 80 gig maxtor - its flakey to say the least.. I used the diags as maxtor says to do, and it recertified the drive, 3 days later, same thing again.

The messages may be related to temp files being created.

Have you looked in the event viewer?

[Mope]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by NooNoo:
<strong>I have an 80 gig maxtor - its flakey to say the least.. I used the diags as maxtor says to do, and it recertified the drive, 3 days later, same thing again.

The messages may be related to temp files being created.

Have you looked in the event viewer?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I sure hope that's not the problem. I just got the drive the other day. What is going on here? I had multiple IBM drives die on me in succession and figured my old Maxtor didn't have any problems so I'd go with them. I'll check with the diag disk in a little while.

Here's one of the fifty (or more) error messages:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 6/27/2002
Time: 5:24:13 PM
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp." target="_blank">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.</a>
Data:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..?
0010: 2d 01 00 00 0e 00 00 c0 -......À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: dd 71 23 00 00 00 00 00 Ýq#.....
0030: ff ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 08 00 01 00 00 @.......
0040: ff 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 ÿ ..@. @
0048: 00 10 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 c0 cc 45 b8 d6 8b fe .ÀÌE¸Ö?þ
0058: 00 00 00 00 70 27 19 81 ....p'.?
0060: 40 a1 f7 81 fd 0f 70 03 @¡÷?ý.p.
0068: 28 00 03 70 0f fd 00 00 (..p.ý..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

That's really helpful
What am I supposed to be looking for?

[NooNoo]

Would the 80 gig maxtor be harddisk 2 drive d by chance?

\Device\Harddisk2\D

Those are the exact errors I am having, except mine is the first hard drive.

Better get those diags going....