External USB2 hard disk ‘ Delayed write failed ‘ error

[Vince Becquiot]

Is this a fat32 formatted disk ?

Vince

[Mbelli]

Don’t edit directly on USB2 or firewire drives, that “delay write” error is common. I’ve been getting it for over 3 years using all kinds of different external drives, enclosures and various versions of Windows.

I recommend edit on your internal drives (configured in a fast RAID if possible) and backup to externals only.

If you work on a laptop this might not be possible, but don’t risk working directly to firewire drives. Your PC/software is doing so many writes/reads to and from your firewire drives that if there is a small glitch you could rick losing valuable work.

I know some people will say they work directly from firewire/USB drives but I don’t think it’s worth the risk for NLE. For other stuff that doesn’t access the drive often like an Excel spreadsheet, or Word — they are fine.

[Aanarav Sareen]

[mbelli] “I know some people will say they work directly from firewire/USB drives but I don’t think it’s worth the risk for NLE. For other stuff that doesn’t access the drive often like an Excel spreadsheet, or Word — they are fine.”

As you said…I will disagree with that statement 🙂 However, if you have internal drives, they should always be given first prioroty.

Now, this error message pops up frequently when your hard-drive either has a bad connection or can’t keep up. What is the speed of the drive? What type of content are you editing?

Aanarav Sareen
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[Jan Janowski]

I was having it too last year… I fixed mine.. It’s Windows…

Go to Google Or Microsoft help site and enter: XP Delayed write
and follow the Microsoft threads. Print out any of them that applies directly to your situation…. Try the fixes one by one…

The one that fixed mine was as follows:

delayed write Failure
Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP. This problem does not occur on all systems. The key ingredients that lead to data corruption may include:

[Jan Janowski]

Here’s some links:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/818788/en-us

Here is the link that fixed my problem:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/330174/en-us

My problem: XP Home, 1Gb Ram, Raid array (Raid 5 — 400+ Gb)
Here’s a link to symptoms in detail: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15154554?hilite=delayed+write

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[Jan Janowski]

Last bit of information… I did not do the registry hack, just the right-click, etc., etc.

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[Raremilind]

Thanx all,

Vince beck, its NTFS drive. Thanx.

Anvar Sareen, 80GB 7200rpm. I am in to small dv docus. Even while backing up putting big files to the drive gives me this error. Thanx for the reply.

Jan Janowski, Thanx for all the info but unfortunately I have tried it all without success. WinXPpro. hanx any way.

Milind