Hard drive failure

Pobby

When I boot up I get a warning that my hard drive is about to fail. All seems OK except that I get a warning balloon telling me that data has been lost due to ``delayed write fail``. Any thoughts please?

fatnbald

does the warning come in windows or during the boot up sequence before it gets to windows ?

http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid1_gci1041334,00.html

This might help you identify it's origin

esuhl

This post on another forum suggests that the problem might have been caused by lack of disk space:

http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f9/delayed-write-fail-ms-updates-causing-serious-issues-184299/

There's some info from Microsoft here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330174/en-us

You might want to use a search engine to see if others have had similar problems:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=~disk+"delayed+write+fail"

jonnywatson

Whats the age of your pc? OS?

Pobby

XP home and my puter is about 3 years old. Rebooted and chkdsk ran a scan and found various things. It seems to be running normally now. Thanks so far guys!

basmic

>>> Backup all your important data and photos, before messing about with the drive! <<<

With the data backed up, you can run the manufacturer's diagnostic tool - do you know what make the drive is, and I'll link you to the tool. Run a quick/basic test within the tool - if that finds nothing, then run the advanced/thorough test.

If that test still finds nothing, then I'd suggest it's either an operating system problem or a damaged data cable.