Re: Failure To Write

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Tim,
Thanks for the reply. I did check the cables and they are all fine. Odd
that it would be happening to two separate externals, though, don't you
think? Makes me feel it is something associated not with the external(s),
but the main hard drive. I don't know where to go from here except to
totally reformat the C drive and see if I can't save the computer, although
that is so much work being I don't have all the discs anymore for all the
programs on the drive. I will lose a lot that way. All my data is backed
up, but the programs themselves are not. I just wish there was an obvious
answer to this.

Thanks for your help.

"Tim Med***" wrote:

Lori,
The file $MFT is the Master File Table of the NTFS volume of F: and
is roughly the equivalent of the FAT table in Fat and Fat32 volumes. All
drives formatted as NTFS will have this hidden file in the root, as all NTFS
volumes have an MFT. One option would be, as this is obviously not going to
be your system drive, that you save all the data on this drive somewhere
else and then re-format F: to Fat32. It does not explain why this is
happening, it could possibly be a connection problem. Try making sure that
all the USB cables (if it is a USB connected drive) or network cables (if it
NAS storage) are plugged in properly first.


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Cheers, Tim Med***, Peckham, London.


"Lori" <Lori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am going out of my mind. I have a C drive with two externals labeled F
and
G, a floppy which is A and two disc drives, a DVD and a CD/RW drive which
are
D and E respectively. Recently, I am constantly getting a yellow pop-up
in
the lower right side of my screen telling me that "Windows was unable to
save
all the date for file F:\$MFT. The data has been lost. This error may be
caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection.
Please
try to save this file elsewhere."
This is accompanied by Event Nos. 51 and 57 in my Admin. Tools Event
Viewer.

I am at a loss. Have tried everything from disk defragging to expanding
the
MFT on the external and no good. Also am very up-to-date on my AV,
spyware,
malware, etc., software and all is good.

Any ideas on what could be causing this? If i have BOTH externals
running,
I get the same error message referencing the G drive. I am NOT trying to
write ANYTHING at all when this occurs.

Thanks.



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