Re: Stupid Windows XP!

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I have no idea what to look for. I'm not exactly the type of guy that knows
how to install a hard-drive inside a computer, or anything similar, and I do
not even know which one is the motherboard or what the PCI thing looks like.

"Bob I" wrote:

> Open the cover and look.
>
> Swordlord wrote:
>
> > Thank you very much for the reply, my friend.
> >
> > I have USB 1.1. But how would I find out if I have a PCI Card or a direct
> > connection on the Motherboard?
> >
> > "Rich Barry" wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Do you have WinUpdate SP2 installed? Are you using a PCI USB2 Card or
> >>do
> >>you have a direct connection USB2 on
> >> the Motherboard?
> >>
> >>"Swordlord" <Swordlord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >>news:3CC04F6F-83B1-445E-AAED-D5869BB78E9D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >>>Could anyone help me with the following issue, please?
> >>>
> >>>I bought a hard-drive which connects through USB. Although it works fine
> >>>with Windows 2000 and Millennium, on my Windows XP Professional computer I
> >>>get this error:
> >>>Whenever I connect it and I try to copy/move files (either from the
> >>>external
> >>>hard-drive to the internal hard-drive, or from the internal hard-drive to
> >>>the
> >>>external hard-drive), it tells me that it cannot copy <name of file>
> >>>because
> >>>it cannot find the file specified. And then I get a 'Windows Delayed Write
> >>>Failed' message. And I cannot move anything, even though the computer sees
> >>>the hard-drive just fine.
> >>>
> >>>From what I understood from the Internet, I presume it might be a security
> >>>issue. But I'll be damned if I know how to fix it.
> >>>
> >>>Can anyone help me, please?
> >>>
> >>>P.S. The HDD does show up in Windows Explorer and in My Computer as drive
> >>>F:\. C:\ is the local hard-drive and D:\ and E:\ are DVD-RW and CD-ROM.
> >>>But anyway, so it shows up as normal, but the thing is if I copy something
> >>>from the external HDD and try to paste it onto the internal HDD (C:) -- or
> >>>the other way, from the internal to the external -- I get this error
> >>>message
> >>>as soon as the bar which indicates the process of transferring files shows
> >>>the first green line. [You see what I'm trying to say, right?]
> >>>***The error messages I get are:
> >>>-->first, I get a pop-up error message with the red X thing, saying:
> >>>"Cannot
> >>>copy <the file name is supposed to be here>. Cannot find the file
> >>>specified."
> >>>-->then, I get this yellow dialog box, popping up from the bottom of the
> >>>screen, where a yellow triangle with a black exclamation sign also
> >>>appears:
> >>>"Windows - Delayed Write Failed:
> >>>Windows was unable to save all the data for the file G:\$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."
> >>>***So, it wants to copy/move the files, but it cannot, for some strange
> >>>reason.
> >>>Also, if I try to use Nero or Media Player for the files on the external
> >>>hard-drive, those programs also fail, because they cannot use the files on
> >>>the external hard-drive. Why the hell is that?
> >>>***Write caching is disabled, so that's not it. At first, it was enabled,
> >>>but
> >>>even after I disabled it the problem kept persisting.
> >>>A million "thank you"s to whoever helps me.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
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