External USB HD issues with a twist (works on Windows7 but not XP)
- by Eruditass
I have this older external USB HD, 160 GB. I was using it to copy my Steam games to another computer. On the source computer, Windows 7 64-bit, everything worked fine. Drive reported no errors, had no hiccups, etc.
Plugging it into the Windows XP 32-bit computer, it worked fine for looking through the files, moving files around on it (no real reading/writing, just modifying the filesystem table). However, when copying files from it to my internal HD, after a couple seconds to tens of minutes (seemingly random times), the USB device becomes unrecognized and it reports a delayed write error.
Events in system log go like this, chronologically:
(number times displayed)xSource (Event ID): "message"
2xdisk (51): An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation.
1xftdisk (57): The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
1xApplication popup (26): Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file E:\$Mft. 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.
1xntfs (50): {Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file . 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.
These repeat for a while, then there is 10+ disk messages or ftdisk messages.
Other notes:
This occurs on random files at random times.
This problem cannot be replicated on the Windows 7 source machine when copying from the HD to a different location on its local disk
chkdsk /f was run and found no errors. chkdsk /f/r has the delayed write issue.
drive was set to quick removal. Setting to performance in device manager yielded same result
I am not writing anything to the USB external drive, so I am not sure why there is even a delayed write error (writing file access times?)
local Windows XP was chkdsk'd without problems
Windows XP machine has no problems with other USB HD's
Various USB ports were attempted
Rebooting did not help
Occurs with SyncToy as well as windows explorer
SMART status is good on both local drive and the external one
Lack of gaming is making me cranky
