Re: Delayed Write Failed on USB disks

If you have the USB device optimized for performance you are, in fact,
enabling "delayed writes. You must then use the supplied "disconnect"
utility in the system notification area to shut down the USB device. This
will flush all delayed writes to the USB device before it allows you to turn
off the device.

Go to device manager and change this setting if you want the device to
operate differently. If neither of the two options fit you, change your
habits.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Martijn Saly" <martijn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Richard Urban wrote:
The more important question is why are YOU using hibernate incorrectly!

Hibernate returns the computer "exactly" to the condition it was in when
you implemented hibernation.

YOU have removed the USB drives. YOU have made it so the computer is NOT
in the exact condition it was in when hibernation occurred.

Suggest you modify your actions.


Sorry, but it is the same as disconnecting the USB disk at the moment of
hibernating. Upon resuming I do hear the "device disconnect" sound as
expected, so Windows knows the device has been disconnected. So rather
than bothing the user with a cryptic error, it could say something
clearer.

Anyway, I still think the most important matter is that Windows simply
should NEVER delay writes to a disk that can potentially be disconnected
at any given moment.

Moreover, this problem can also occur without ever using hibernation. Just
write a large lump of data to a USB disk and when the action appears to
have completed, disconnect the disk (this is how a n00b user will think).
Then you might get either the "delayed write failed" error, or the written
files are just corrupted, which is much worse.

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Thanks,

Martijn Saly


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