Roffen Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 Windows XPSp3 problem: This error message sometimes appear out of the blue: Windows - Delayed writing failed Windows cannot store all the data for file M:\$Mft Try storing the file in a different place. I don't know what I've been doing when it appears. From now on I am going to watch closely to try and discover exactly when it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Horror Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 What is the "M:" drive in your system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roffen Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 The M: drive is a partition on a 1TB disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevMUN Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 Internal drive, right? I looked up delayed write failed errors to see if I could find any solutions, but most of the things I'm seeing involve external drives. You might want to try the solution described here, disabling write caching on the drive in question, to see if that fixes things. How long has the error been happening for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Horror Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 3 hours ago, Roffen said: The M: drive is a partition on a 1TB disk. Can you post here S.M.A.R.T. report of the disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roffen Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 Sorry, S.M.A.R.T. is new to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 S.M.A.R.T. is a set of parameters that are monitored/recorded by the disk controller itself. You need a program to view them. The recommended tool is SmartMonTools: https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download#InstalltheWindowspackage BUT for the intended use it will be easier for you to use this graphic interface to it: https://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io/home/index.php/Downloads S.M.A.R.T. (which I personally call "DUMB") data is usually of no use whatever, but in some, few and rare, cases it may help in understanding if a disk drive is actually going bad. I don't think this is the case, but checking it doesn't do any harm. The actual issue (the Delayed Writing) is usually one of those "misterious" issues that may come from a number of sources, likely it is some form of conflict with some driver (often graphic card drivers are mentioned as being part of the cause) or however programs that access memory directly, it is usually extremely difficult to find the culprit. More often than not this problem affects external (USB) disks, but in some cases it affects also internal (directly connected) ones, possible mitigations (if not solutions) may be different if the disk is an internal or an external (USB) one, you need to specify this. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Horror Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 On 6/24/2018 at 2:56 PM, jaclaz said: S.M.A.R.T. (which I personally call "DUMB") data is usually of no use whatever, but in some, few and rare, cases it may help in understanding if a disk drive is actually going bad. S.M.A.R.T. is almost useless in predicting how long your HDD will work flawless for you, despite many dumb "system monitoring" software pretend to use it this way. But, there is some parameters in the S.M.A.R.T. that are really useful in detecting failures of HDD itself or the data throughput channel, including PATA/SATA controller, cable and connections. Either may be the cause of delayed write failures. So, i prefer to see the S.M.A.R.T. report ("Attributes" page in terms of GSmartControl mentioned above) before do any further conclusions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Yellow Horror said: S.M.A.R.T. is almost useless in predicting how long your HDD will work flawless for you, despite many dumb "system monitoring" software pretend to use it this way. But, there is some parameters in the S.M.A.R.T. that are really useful in detecting failures of HDD itself or the data throughput channel, including PATA/SATA controller, cable and connections. Either may be the cause of delayed write failures. So, i prefer to see the S.M.A.R.T. report ("Attributes" page in terms of GSmartControl mentioned above) before do any further conclusions. Yep , exactly. Just in case the only somehow meaningful S.M.A.R.T. parameters that can actually (maybe and perhaps) predict an impending failure are: 5, 187, 188, 197, 198 http://reboot.pro/topic/21652-there-is-limited-lifetime-writes-on-seagate-hdds/?p=205079 And here is yet another simple tool by our friend erwan.l: http://reboot.pro/topic/21659-smart-hd/ jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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