External hard drive problem

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Pete

Hi,

I just bought a 200 Gb external firewire/USB 2.0 hard drive in a 3.5"
case for my standalone Dell notebook. Although it worked flawlessly to
back up my data, when I run some tasks like intensive processing of
images on this drive and even the Windows XP defrag utility, the hard
drive stops working and disconnects itself. I then have to switch it off
then back on again to get it to reappear under My Computer. When ever
this happens, Windows XP reports this error:

"Windows - Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file G:????. 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."

I'm reasonably clueless about what to do in these situations but I did
run the Windows XP disk error checking utility (which took literally a
couple of hours). This did not report any problems.

I'm wondering what might be causing this annoying problem. Is there some
hardware settings I need to tweak or is this likely to be a bad disk
drive? I should say that I'm using the firewire port. My other option is
USB 1.1.

Thanks for your help.
 
Don't know if this will help but it is a place to start.

Make sure that the external drive self powered. Do not rely on the power
supplied by the USB port.

Tom Woodrow
 
Hi,
have you solved the problem?
Recently I bought an external hard disk USB 2.0, but introduce me the
same problems of yours.
I tried to update the driver (VIA driver), the operating system
(Windows XP) and the bios (ASUS A7V8X-X).
Nothing worked!
I tried the external on another computer with ASUS A7N8X-X and Windows
XP and it works perfecly.

Thanks in advance.

Carlo
 
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