Hardware failure message in windows XP

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Sometimes when logging in to Windows XP Pro, I get a
notification message in the bottom right toolbar telling
me: "Windows-delayed write failed....Windows was unable to
save all the data for the file D:\$mft. The data has been
lost. The error may be caused by a failure of your
computer hardware or network connection." The D: Drive
that it is referring to is my backup storage IDE drive.
The file $mft that it refers to is always the same.
There never seems to be any actual data loss of any
kind. I can write to the drive, read from it, etc., with
no problems. I have also recently reformatted the drive,
but this error still seems to occaisionly pop up every
second day or so, and I am not sure if it is telling me
that my hard drive is failing or not! Especially since I
can use the hard drive, write to it, etc. Can someone
please tell me what causes this type of error???

Note: I have already checked the ribbon cable, its okay,
I have turned off the "Enabled Write Caching" option in
polices under hardware tab, but I am still getting the
error!!! There must be a fix for this possible Windows
XP error as many users are having the same problem!
 
Sheldon said:
Sometimes when logging in to Windows XP Pro, I get a
notification message in the bottom right toolbar telling
me: "Windows-delayed write failed....Windows was unable to
save all the data for the file D:\$mft. The data has been
lost. The error may be caused by a failure of your
computer hardware or network connection." The D: Drive
that it is referring to is my backup storage IDE drive.
The file $mft that it refers to is always the same.
There never seems to be any actual data loss of any
kind. I can write to the drive, read from it, etc., with
no problems. I have also recently reformatted the drive,
but this error still seems to occaisionly pop up every
second day or so, and I am not sure if it is telling me
that my hard drive is failing or not! Especially since I
can use the hard drive, write to it, etc. Can someone
please tell me what causes this type of error???

Note: I have already checked the ribbon cable, its okay,
I have turned off the "Enabled Write Caching" option in
polices under hardware tab, but I am still getting the
error!!! There must be a fix for this possible Windows
XP error as many users are having the same problem!
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On two laptops, both XP Home SP1, Intel Application Accelerator was the
culprit. HTH.

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I am having the same problem.in fact while my pc is on at
any random a blue screen comes up tellin me about a
computer hardware or network connection error.i have
disabled the 'enable write caching' but i still had the
same problem.so i decided to reboot my pc.for 2 days it
was fine,then this messege came up again!one vital aspect
is that this all started when i installed my broadband
internet to my pc.ever since i have had so many
problems.If i'm downloading a file, when this blue screen
comes up it will erase the dwnload when i restart my pc.
please tell me if you have had similar problems.
 
Sheldon said:
What is Intel App. Accelerator and how do I try to
disable it???
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You will only have IAA if *you* installed it. AFIK, it is not a part of
XP. If it is installed, it will be listed in Add/Remove Programs.

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