Re: Hard Drive problems

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I know that by default Windows only lets you use up to 128GB in one
partition, but if that were the problem then it wouldn't let me choose the
max size.


"George Valkov" wrote:

A friend of mine bought a new copmputer with S-ATA hard-disk 200 GB in
December 2004, XP-SP1 or SP2 - I don`t remember, but it needed some special
drivers, or it would recognise the disk as 128 GB.
I decided to optimize the performance a little bit, so I opened:
System properties (WIN_KEY + Pause/Break), Advanced, Performance, settings
button, Advanced

and selected: Memory usage: Adjust for better performance of (System cache).

During the next logon (after reboot), the system started displaying "Delayed
write failed" errors and finaly died. All partitions on the hard-disk were
completely destroyed. He lost about 200 GB of data ;-)

Cheers!


By the way I recently installed 2 new 320 GB IDE-ATA disks on the system.
Guess what will happen if I install XP on my computer ;-) I don`t dare even
to thing of it, the XP recovery console will not recognise the disks
correctly :-(



"S Murder" wrote :
|I tried copying some files to it, but I got an error saying "Delayed Write
| Failed", and now the SATA HDD doesn't appear in My Computer or Disk
| Management any more.
|
| "Bob Willard" wrote:
|
| > S Murder wrote:
| > > I just got a brand new 160GB SATA hard drive. I've formatted it at
least 5
| > > times, and after each attempt I was unable to put any files or folders
on it
| > > (though it did have a drive letter). When trying to add a new folder,
it
| > > would say "cannot find that file" or something like that. chkdsk ran
several
| > > times but never worked.
| > >
| > > I tried formatting it using the Windows setup disk, and it worked,
sort of.
| > > After formatting it, I tried installing Windows XP 64bit on it as a
backup in
| > > case my main setup fails. Setup couldn't complete, because after the
files
| > > were copied and my computer restarted, it said it couldn't complete
| > > installation because nyoskernel.exe was missing. When I booted my main
OS and
| > > browsed the disk, files and folders were there, but when I went to
| > > G:/Windows/system32 to see if the file was there, I got an error
message
| > > saying it's not accessible and that it's corrupted.
| > > When I try to defragment, it says chkdsk is scheduled to run, but when
it
| > > ran on start up, it said there was an "unspecified error".
| > >
| > > How do I get the disk to work?
| >
| > Is the HD SATA-I or SATA-II? If it is SATA-II, does your MB support
SATA-II?
| > If your MB is a -I and your HD is a -II, you may need to force your HD
into
| > -I mode; check the docs that came with your HD (or look on the HD
vendor's
| > site if you have no docs) to see how to downshift the HD from -II to -I.
| >
| > Yes, SATA is supposed to be adaptive w.r.t. -I/-II, but some MBs are
not.
| > --
| > Cheers, Bob
| >



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