Delayed write failed popup...why ?

[DBenz]

Every 5 mins it seems I get a pop up on my WinXP PC with the message

Windows Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
F:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Applicationdata\McAfee\AntiSpyware\Data\SpyData.dat
The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection.

It can be other addresses, like when I was installing a flight sim, a .wav file was referred to, or today a psd file I had not long saved from Photoshop. However the file was not lost, so error warning not quite accurate is it, what is going on ?

It’s a pain having to keep closing this popup.

F drive is my main bootable drive (C is other one….dual boot) and both are on NON caddy HDD, so not the caddy as such.

I installed a Seagate HDD into a caddy, wonder if I did this correctly, its storing data ok, cannot remember if I formatted it and most unlike me I have no notes on what I did. Pretty sure it was done via partition magic. What should have been correct procedure, perhaps if I offload its data and redo it, things mike be better ?

 

[Anti-Trend]

One thing you misunderstand is that the drive letters Windows uses are relative, meaning that C: is the first drive Windows 'sees' when it starts, and it progresses from there (A: and B: are typically reserved for floppy drives and have been since the DOS days). In other words, F: on one partition will not necessarily be F: on the other. And if you added an external HDD that the system was using for some internal purpose and you remove it, you'll get messages like that. My guess is that your system mounted the external drive in your possession as F: on that partition, hence the problems.