"write delay failed" msg

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Hi everyone,

I'm having a problem with a particular partition. E drive keeps
returning "write delay failed" messages. When i try to a create New
Folders in that drive, it returns with an error message which reads
"unable to create the folder 'New Folder' The drive cannot find the
sector requested." A week ago I could create new folders, but it
would have trouble writing data to the disk (eg: large downloads would
stop part way through with the 'write delay failed' message). Now I
can't even create new folders.

I'm using Windows XP Professional with a single hard drive. The other
two partitions are working fine. Anyone know what might be the
problem?

Thanks

Taras
.

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