Do I need to replace my external hard drive?

[Egan]

Hi

I get a yellow triangular icon with a black exclamation point with the
message -- Windows -- Delayed Write Failed. Windows was unable to save all
the data for the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2. 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.

This happens each time I backed up successfully with Acronis True Image Home
11 and immediately turning off my IOMEGA 250 GB external hard drive.
Also this happens when I am not backing up if I copy data to or from the
external hard drive and this error message appears.

If I leave my IOMEGA external hard drive on and logout of Windows
administrator account and then immediately turning the external hard drive
then the same error message appears but with a white X with a red circular
icon.

Does anyone know what is wrong? How do I fix this error message?
Is there something wrong with my external hard drive? Do I need to replace
my external hard drive.? I did not get this error message before.

I ran chkdsk on Drive C and IOMEGA external hard drive but found no errors.

Much help is appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Paul]

Are you sure all buffered data has been flushed to the drive. Wait until
all activity has ceased and always use the safely remove hardware option
from the task bar and wait until you get the 'safe to remove' message.
Dave Cohen

Example with pictures here.

https://www.mcgill.ca/emf/help/safely-remove-usb/

Paul