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Delayed Write Failed: USB 2.0 HD

Greetz fellow [H]'ers:



I've recently bought a new Maxtor 200GB HD and droped it into my external enclosure, well suddenly today it started giving me a "Delayed Write Failed" error and wont copy data, my PC then simply starts freezing up. I've checked the forums for this issue but none i found pretained to USB drives.



My system is as follows:



Dell Precision 650

Xeon 3.0ghz w/ HT

USB 2.0 compliant



My original post (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=975952&page=1&pp=5)

This link has a cupla possible problems. Could be MB - or a simple USB cable.

http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=16&threadid=50469



here's a blog talking about the issue with firewire - might help

http://www.bustrace.com/delayedwrite/



and - Microsoft knows about a windowsXP sp2 issue that is almost like yours -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;885464

Sadly enough, I've tried the advice on all 3 of those sites and I wasnt able to get anywhere. :wallbang:

I received this e-mail Microsoft

I am a Microsoft support engineer for Windows XP and had a customer call in with the write delay error and was able to fix her by downloading a XP driver for her disk controller card. When she installed XP, and this is true for everyone, the installation put a MS generic driver for her controller. We went to the mfg's web site and downloaded the XP driver for the card and her problem is now resolved. She was getting this error when trying to write above 140 gig on a 200 gig Maxtor 2000. Go to device manager and she if you disk controller has a Microsoft driver with a date of 6/2001. If you have that driver installed go to the mfg's web site for your card and get their XP driver and your problem should be resolved



Try this http://www.opendrivers.com/downloadopendrivers.php?href=21270

http://bermangraphics.com/problems/delayedwritefailure.htm



Theres another good link