Re: Stupid Windows XP!

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A PCI card USB is inserted in one of the slot connectors on the motherboard,( main circuitboard which is what everything else is attached to). If the USB port are "on the motherboard" then the port is physically mounted to the motherboard or is connected by wire to the motherboard.

Swordlord wrote:

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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