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Delayed Write Failed - Cant Revert External Drive Back to "Quick Removal"
I am working on a machine where the user adjusted the policies of an external Seagate hard drive from the default (Quick removal) to the "Better Performance" with "Write caching on the device" enabled.
I believe this is causing the constant "Delayed Write Failed" errors i see in a balloon window from the task bar anytime a file is written to that drive.
If I try to change the setting (Disk Management, right clicked the drive, Properties, Policies Tab), back to the default setting of Quick Removal OR disable the write caching - I get an error - "Windows could not change the write-caching setting for the device. your device might not support this feature or changing the setting" and am unable to fix.
I have ran a full diagnostic on the drive and it passed.
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I believe this is causing the constant "Delayed Write Failed" errors i see in a balloon window from the task bar anytime a file is written to that drive.
If I try to change the setting (Disk Management, right clicked the drive, Properties, Policies Tab), back to the default setting of Quick Removal OR disable the write caching - I get an error - "Windows could not change the write-caching setting for the device. your device might not support this feature or changing the setting" and am unable to fix.
I have ran a full diagnostic on the drive and it passed.
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David Johnson, CD
Delayed write failed means the drive is failing if not already in a failed condition. Test the drive with Seatools http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/006153en?language=en_US
ASKER
I used Seatools to run a basic and extended drive test. Both tests passed.
in event viewer, system are there any disk events?
ASKER
no disk events
Have you tried going into Device Manager and uninstalling the driver for this external drive (if there is one), and then reinstalling it?
ASKER
Yes - i did do an uninstall and reinstall.
Also tried moving to a few different USB ports.
Also tried moving to a few different USB ports.
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Sea Tools would not open.
Ran Diagnostics with Western Digital tool - passed basic and extended.
After downloading a different Seagate management tool - it detected the drive was failing.
Ran Diagnostics with Western Digital tool - passed basic and extended.
After downloading a different Seagate management tool - it detected the drive was failing.