Delayed Write Fail !!! Someone Please

Hi guys
Well, I have a USB storage and 2 days ago I was accidentally disconnected while it was reading file, and when I plugged back again I says "Windows Delayed write failed, your data has been lost...."

Been trying to find solutions on the webs and forums and got no luck...
Any Ideas or suggestions will be most welcome

Thanks in advance

 

The message means what it says: Something was in the cache and couldn't get written to the HDD.

Can you still read and write to the external HDD?

John

 

neither read or write, the data (> 70GBs) is still there and I just cannot do anything. Trying to defrag it, it won't let me defrag, format, delete or anything whatsoever.

 

i get thise message from time to time at work when doing our backups to external drives

 

I did too, but this time it is serious !!!

 

1. Can you try the HDD on another computer. Maybe your is remembering the write problem and refusing to access it. Windows can get like that sometimes.

2. Perhaps the FAT / partition table is corrupted. Can one of the recovery software packages read the HDD. I don't know how well they work through a USB interface. You may need to connect the HDD into a desktop so that it is directly on an IDE channel.

John

 

Thanks for your reply, I did try it on another computer and the problem is still there, now I'm gonna try one of the tools (or maybe) all of them.

 

If you turned it off without parking the heads, it can damage the disk. The disks that normally park the heads off the actual disk (some IBM/Hitachi) are particularly sensitive to this.

 

O&O disk recovery will get all your files back but you need to pay for teh program becasue the demo will only show you the files & not restore them.

But if nothing else is working download teh demo & see if it can see yoru stuff & if it can it might be worth teh money to pay for it.

 

Thanks for your suggestion, I'll try it and see