Help Me

[Fr33m4n]

I have a problem..i recently slaved my second hard drive and i seemed to have it the first day..so i reformatted and it was all good until i tryed to download americas army (903mb) file onto there....it got to 98% and then said D:\$MFT is corrupt please save the file elseware...arg...the windows explorer dind't respond so i shut it down...and now when i am in "my computer" i cannot find my d:\ drive

ALSO

"Windows - Delayed write failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file D:\ (or D:\$8itMap). the data has been lost. this error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. please save the file somewhere else."

Please help me

EDIT: Computer specs: Amd athelon 1800+ (1.51ghz), 1gb patriot ram, radeon 9200 128mb, windows XP PRO.

PRI master - 20gb seagate
PRI slave - 55gb maxtor (the problem hdd)
SEC master - 52x cd rom drive
SEC slave - 16x cd rw drive

[Platypus]

Welcome to WinDrivers, Fr33m4n.

You don't specify your Operating System, but since it appears to be NT-based, I'll guess XP.

Delayed write is a feature of NTFS that is vulnerabe to causing corruption if there is a hardware problem, this may be a memory glitch, PSU or hard drive problem, capacitors on the motherboard starting to fail...

Once the MFT (Master File Table) has become corrupted, unless there is valuable data on the drive, it's probably best to start from scratch with that drive. Does the drive appear at all in Disk Management? If it doesn't, but it shows in the POST equipment list at startup, I'd suggest downloading the drive manufacturer's checking software and run it on the drive.

If the drive is present and can be re-initialised in the Disk Manager, I'd suggest there may be a gremlin lurking somewhere in your system...

One thing, when you say you slaved the drive, does this mean both hard drives are on the one IDE cannel, as Master & Slave? If so, this will hit performance hard when copying between the drives. It's possible I suppose that this could affect delayed writes under some circumstances. It is always better to have drives on separate IDE channels where possible for best results copying between.