Re: help - what is going on?

From: Peter Larsen (plarsen_no2spam@mail.tele.dk)
Date: 10/06/02 

From: Peter Larsen <plarsen_no2spam@mail.tele.dk>
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 18:29:57 +0200

Manio wrote:
 
> Hi
> Last time when i shutting down my w2k ... first time I've got a message:
> Delayed Write Failed...

Means that the disk cache contents were not succesfully written to disk.
You should probably start with pointing your browser in the general
direction of Windows Update.
 
> After restart i found this in Event Viewer:
> Application popup: Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to
> save all the data for the file \Device\HarddiskVolume6\Documents\C++. 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.
 
> So ... here is my questions:
> why it's written that it can't save a file while it is a directory?!?!

It would appear that adding information to the directory failed.

> i don't know if i had lost some file(s) from the specified directory
> (...\Documents\C++) - i have lots files in there ... is it possible?
> maybe windows couldn't set any attributes of the directory or something?
> do you have any conclusions?
>
> and additional (may helpful) info:
> i've done chkdsk ... no problems were found ...
> the message wasn't shown another time

NTFS probably saved your ***. Be aware that the OS claims it to be a
possible hardware issue, this could make investigating driver and
bios-updates relevant. Do be aware that most hardware manufacturers
advice against updating a bios unless the update with reason is expected
to cure a known problem. Take care to save the old bios to a file first
....
 
> ps. please forgive my english!
> best regards
> --
> _____________________________________________________
> Mariusz "Manio" Białończyk
> ICQ#: 17553802; linux registered user: 182639 

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