 | By Fred Langa They may be rare, but Windows’ delayed-write errors can mean immediate data loss. These glitches can also be a bear to sort out, but I’ve found a bunch of first-rate troubleshooting resources for the problems. |
When a network file-save goes ‘poof!’
Torrey Everett ran into the kind of problem I hope you never encounter:
- “I have an XP Media Center (SP3) PC that’s part of a home Ethernet network on which resides a backup server running XP Pro (SP3).
“I have been using Norton Ghost for over a year for backing up my main computer and storing the backup files on the server. This week, I began getting ‘Windows — Delayed Write Failed’ errors consistently.
“I have searched the Microsoft Knowledge Base and find nothing that seems relevant, either because I don’t have the hardware, adapters, etc., they reference or because the Registry already is set according to their recommendations.
“I have checked the obvious things — such as space available on the backup server, trying a different drive on the backup server, making sure the network connections are secure, and running chkdsk on each of the drives. Ghost starts normally and runs for a while, but always fails 15-20% of the way through the process — not in the same place each time, but fairly close.
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